“But people have no idea what time is. They think it’s a line, spinning out from three seconds behind them, then vanishing just as fast into the three seconds of fog just ahead. They can’t see that time is one spreading ring wrapped around another, outward and outward until the thinnest skin of Now depends for its being on the enormous mass of everything that has already died.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“The rooms weren't empty, they were filled with the absence of someone.”
― A Keeper
― A Keeper
“You are the only variable in the situation you have control over,”
― Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
― Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
“The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the most tempting moment.”
― Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
― Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
“We like the idea that there's always someone responsible for any given event, because it helps us make sense of the world. We like that so much that sometimes we blame ourselves, just so that there's someone to blame. But not everything is under our control, or even anyone's control.”
― Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom
― Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom
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