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“When one's life seems broken beyond repair, there remains one last move: a person can at least shut her eyes.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

“She has the feeling already that she will remember this night for a long time. But she feels this way often, a certain simmering. It is a habit of thinking she shares with her father--every ordinary moment holds a potential calamity, and you cannot know when one will rise.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

“one could entertain the theory that if you could truly understand the complexity of reality, you could also accurately predict the future, since every moment of the future is set in motion by the events of the past”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

“But a heaviness lingers in his limbs, awareness - no diagnostic test can register whether it’s a symptom of the sickness or grief. The darkest moods sometimes descend after periods of unexpected light.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers