“That's the thing with time, isn't it? It's not all the same. Some days - some years - some decades - are empty. There is nothing to them. It's just flat water. And then you come across a year, or even a day, or an afternoon. And it is everything. It is the whole thing.”
― How to Stop Time
― How to Stop Time
“That is one of the patterns: when nothing is happening, nothing continues to happen, but after a while the lull becomes too much and the drums need to kick in. Something has to happen. Often that need comes from yourself. You make a phone call. You say, "I can't do this life anymore, I need to change.' And one thing happens which you are in control of. And then another happens which you have no control over. Newton's third law of motion. Actions create reactions. When things start to happen, other things start to happen. But sometimes it seems there is no explanation as to why the things are happening - why all the buses are coming along at once - why life's moments of luck and pain arrive in clusters. All we can do is observe the pattern, the rhythm, and then live it.”
― How to Stop Time
― How to Stop Time
“She laughs. It is the simplest, purest joy on earth, I realise, to make someone you care about laugh.”
― How to Stop Time
― How to Stop Time
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself”
― The Prophet
― The Prophet
“How does one know that, before the first hello? It’s a heaviness in the air combined with a lightness of step. It’s a slowing down of the past, and a speeding up of the future.”
― The Swans of Fifth Avenue
― The Swans of Fifth Avenue
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