Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?

I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.

Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.

Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions.

Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a sentence - and how it may upend a life and threaten to dissolve the soul.

The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it. Her heart knew the plane could fall out of the sky.

the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.