There's a lot that's not explained about the universe. And psychic-ness is not stranger than that.
Curtis SittenfeldHigh school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.
Curtis SittenfeldAnd an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement. To spend a Saturday afternoon mopping your kitchen floor while listening to opera on the radio, and to go that night to an Indian restaurant with a friend and be home by nine o'clock - these are enough. They are gifts.
Curtis SittenfeldShe opened her mouth but did not immediately speak, and I felt, simultaneously, the impulse to coax the words from her and the impulse to suppress them. I always thought I wanted to know a secret, or I wanted an event to unfold โ I wanted my life to start โ but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.
Curtis Sittenfeld