She had the bizarre feeling of time bending all around her, as though she was from the past reading about the future, or from the future reading about the past.

All sorts of strange people were around, people who looked more at home than she was, even the homeless ones who spoke no English, more at home maybe because they were younger, and when she went out it seemed to her that she too had migrated, that everyone migrates, even if we stay in the same houses our whole lives, because we can't help it.We are all migrants through time.

We are all migrants through time.

Time is our most precious currency. So it’s significant that we are being encouraged, wherever possible, to think of our attention not as expenditure but as consumption. This blurring of labor and entertainment forms the basis, for example, of the financial alchemy that conjures deca-billion-dollar valuations for social-networking companies.

There was also closeness, for the end of a couple is like a death, and the notion of death, of temporariness, can remind us of the value of things.