• There was no way to grasp the reality of the present which slid away each second, invisible as air; reality only existed after the fact, in one's vision of the past.

    Paula Fox: There was no way to grasp the reality of the present which slid away each second, invisible as air; reality only existed after the fact, in one's vision of the past.
    Paula Fox (2011). “The Widow's Children: A Novel”, p.97, W. W. Norton & Company