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Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it (Margaret Thatcher)

Photo by Andreas Klassen on Unsplash

The pleasant dusty soporific smell

Photo by Florencia Viadana on Unsplash We were the only customers downstairs in the shop and there were no windows and only two dim bulbs, without shades. There was the pleasant dusty soporific smell, as though the books had stolen most of the air. Ian McEwan (in Sweet Tooth )

Sad people are the only real ones (Anne Tyler)

Sad people are the only real ones. They can tell you the truth about things; they have always known that there is no one you can depend upon forever and no change in your life, however great, that can keep you from being in the end what you were in the beginning: lost and lonely, sitting on an oilcloth watching the rest of the world do the butterfly stroke. Anne Tyler (in Celestial Navigation )

Wasn't there anything to lift him out of this stillness inside? (Anne Tyler)

He made his breakfast toast and ate it absently, chewing each mouthful twenty times and gazing at the toaster while he tried to find just one heroic undertaking that he could aim his life toward. Anne Tyler (in Celestial Navigation )

The house seemed like an old person

It was September now and some nights the steam heat came on. The radiators warming up smelled dusty and bitter, the house seemed like an old person, all rattling bones and coughs and stale breaths. Anne Tyler (in Celestial Navigation )

Queequeg was a native of Rokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are (Herman Melville in Moby Dick)

Rokovoko Island is fictional.