'Nearly everything that has happened to me has happened by surprise. All the important things have happened by surprise. And whatever has been happening usually has already happened before I had time to expect it. The world doesn't stop because you are in love or mourning or in need of time to think. And so when I have thought I was in my story or in charge of it, I really have been on the edge of it, carried along. Is this because we are in an eternal story that is happening partly in time?'
Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow, p.322.
