"Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late."
"Outside the leaves on the trees constricted slightly; they were the deep done green of the beginning of autumn. It was a Sunday in September. There would only be four. The clouds were high and the swallows would be here for another month or so before they left for the south before they returned again next summer."
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Source: Once upon a life: Ali Smith by Ali Smith, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2011.
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