Rosh

“There was a tendency, he knew, when thinking about people from the past, to believe that they’d remained the same while you yourself had evolved,”
― Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North

“You had to withstand a profound sense of wrongness if you ever wanted to get somewhere new.”
― Miranda July, All Fours

“She thinks suddenly that what has spooked her is not good luck but the vivid fact of luck itself. Even with all her preparation and the long knowledge of the horsemen, her account of the weather and the odds, only preposterous chance could have led to this result. And if there was such good luck in the world, and if it could outpace her own agency and her own knowledge, then bad luck must be the same, and no luck, too. She has been seen and accommodated by luck, and she wants out of its sight line.”
― Shannon Pufahl, On Swift Horses

“Nealon is shook. He has not foreseen any version of this meeting in which he would be sitting in a hotel foyer listening to a man unspooling his whole life in a way that made more sense coming from him than anything he himself had experienced. Such an unbroken telling of it makes him wonder how he has remained so fragmented and disordered to himself. How has he failed to see such continuance? This whole thing falls outside any idea of the life he knows as his own.”
― Mike McCormack, This Plague of Souls