She was a very beautiful person who was missing something very ugly. Her winnings were the absence of something, and this quality hung around her. - Miranda July

We were always getting away with something, which implied that someone was always watching us, which mean were are not alone in this world.

In the recurring dream everything has already fallen down, and I’m underneath. I’m crawling, sometimes for days, under the rubble. And as I crawl I realize that this one was the Big One. It was the earthquake that shook the whole world, and every single thing was destroyed. But this isn’t the scary part. That part always comes right before I wake up. I am crawling and then suddenly I remember: the earthquake happened years ago. This pain, this dying, this is just normal. This is how life is. In fact, I realize, there never was an earthquake. Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy for dreaming something else.

Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.