“Any given moment—no matter how casual, how ordinary—is poised, full of gaping life.”
Anne Michaels book Fugitive Pieces
Source: Fugitive Pieces
“Any moment calledis always full of possibles.”
— China Miéville, book Kraken
Source: Kraken
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