There's a fearful term that's in fashion at the moment - closure. People apparently believe it is desirable and attainable.
Penelope LivelyThe day is refracted, and the next and the one after that, all of them broken up into a hundred juggled segments, each brilliant and self-contained so that the hours are no longer linear but assorted like bright sweets in a jar.
Penelope LivelyI am addicted to arrivals, to those innocent dawn moments from which history accelerates.
Penelope LivelyEqually, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.
Penelope Lively