The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true of chocolate and marriages and hometowns and narrative structures. Complexities wane, miracles become unremarkable, and if we're not careful, pretty soon we're gazing out at our lives as if through a burlap sack.

Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2008) - ISBN: 9781416573166