Time hangs off me like molting skin.
“Time hangs off me like molting skin.”
— Lionel Shriver · Time
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Time hangs off me like molting skin.
“Time hangs off me like molting skin.”
— Lionel Shriver · Time
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“Time hangs off me like molting skin.”
“I am bowled over by the massive number of remarkable people who face down the fact that no, they are not going to be film directors, famous artists, or billionaire entrepreneurs and still come out the other side as cheerful, decent, gracious human beings.”
“Formal declarations of mistrust, pre-nups are emotionally unfortunate. They overtly plan for failure, and thus involve a jarring cognitive dissonance.”
“A Trump presidency feels as if we've crawled between the covers of a really crummy book.”
“Outside, she thought that there ought to be a word for it: the air temperature that was perfectly neither hot nor cold. One degree lower, and she might have felt a faint misgiving about not having brought a jacket. One degree higher, and a skim of sweat might have glistened at her hairline. But at this precise degree, she required neither wrap nor breeze. Were there a word for such a temperature, there would have to be a corollary for the particular ecstasy of greeting it - the heedlessness, the needlessness, the suspended lack of urgency, as if time could stop, or should. Usually temperature was a battle; only at this exact fulcrum was it an active delight.”
“But that’s the trouble with moments—they end." ~Narrator”
“Estoy dispuesta a pasar de segundo. Uno más. Allá voy.”
“Let a second from my clock keep you”
“It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.”
“A hair-hopper is someone who pretends they're rich, who really wasn't brought up very wealthy but now tries to brag that they're rich, and they spend too much time on their hair.”
“The only way to have time is to shut down and then do what you want to do.”