The sun was out after a sojourn behind some clouds. Planes glinted in the sunlight and gradually diminished in the distance, leaving a trail of noise. A light breeze took the edge off the heat. The moment struck her as perfect, in the way that quotidian moments sometimes did. She tried to freeze it in her mind: the acid sweetness of her apple, the crunch of it against her teeth, the smell of the grass. It was cheating, in a sense, to circumvent the natural sifting process of memory, but she found that those moments when she stopped and thought I’m awake! as though in the midst of a dream, were ones she remembered with an uncommon clarity.
– Matthew Thomas, We Are Not Ourselves
Thank you, Lacy, for sending me this perfect passage.
I just finished reading the book, We Are Not Ourselves, from which this quote was taken. It is filled with similar gems. Brilliant.
listening to this on audible now. beautifully told.