And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight— isn't that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except that you see things differently and you're less fearful and less anxious and generally stronger as a result: isn't it amazing that a completely invisible thing in your head can feel realer than anything you've experienced before?
The Corrections: A Novel (ed. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001) - ISBN: 9781429928618