“life is very long, unless it is not.” – Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“It was far-reaching: this much she knew. It had layers and strata, like a landscape.
[…]trying to live as best they can in the presence of such enormous, distracting absences
[…]then he will step out, into the light, to inhabit the form of another” – Maggie O’Farrell, Hamnet
