“Because if every moment of a life is present in every other, so is every old self you’ve ever tried to outrun. And then how to know – the present self having always felt flimsy, somehow, compared to the one so acutely alive under the kitchen table – which you, specifically, is the real one?”

“Because if every moment of a life is present in every other, so is every old self you’ve ever tried to outrun. And then how to know – the present self having always felt flimsy, somehow, compared to the one so acutely alive under the kitchen table – which you, specifically, is the real one?”

— Garth Risk Hallberg