"It’s a mistake to think it’s the small things we control and not the large. We can’t stop the small accident, the tiny detail that conspires into fate: the extra moment you run back for something forgotten, a moment that saves you from an accident – or causes one. But we can assert the largest order, the large human values daily, the only order large enough to see."

-Anne Michaels | Fugitive Pieces

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30 Day Book Meme: Day 17

Day 17: Favourite quote

Right now, this is it:

It’s a mistake to think it’s the small things we control and not the large; it’s the other way around. We can’t stop the small accident, the tiny detail that conspires into fate, the extra moment you run back for something forgotten, a moment that saves you from an accident - or causes one. But we can assert the largest ones, the large human values daily, the only order large enough to see.

- Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
  -  31 December, 2010