Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life. - Gregory Maguire, A Lion Among Men

"The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious."

"Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping."

"The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase."