"It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt..."

"It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt tethered by time to the city behind her, so that the minutes stretched out taut as she moved away, and slowed the farther she got, dragging out her little voyage."

- ― China Miéville, The Scar