The Repeat Room Quotes

“I can only say that although it seems that in childhood there is endless time for everything, in fact there is only enough of time for a tiny set of things to occur, and that those things happening, one after another, to a person, or to persons not cognizant of the incredible brevity of the event, the things happen at times as if to one who is asleep. Only after do we wake and wonder—how could I have never said this, or known that. What did I give up unknowingly? So often it seems there was a place adjacent to the one in which we were—and yet we never went there. It would have been the work of a moment to do so. But it never happened and now it never can.”
― Jesse Ball, The Repeat Room