Julia

“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.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“The rooms weren't empty, they were filled with the absence of someone.”
― graham norton, A Keeper

“You are the only variable in the situation you have control over,”
― Robert Kolker, 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.”
― Anne Glenconner, Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown