There are gaps in the mesh of the everyday world, and sometimes they open up and you fall through them into somewhere else. Somewhere Else runs at a different pace to the here and now, where everyone else carries on. Somewhere Else is where ghosts live, concealed from view and only glimpsed by people in the real world. Somewhere Else exists at a delay, so that you can’t quite keep pace … I was surprised to find that I felt at home there.”
-- The Author (Narration) (Prologue)

Importance: This quote references an aspect of what the author calls "wintering" - a kind of physical and psycho-emotional withdrawal from the world - that can become important in a person's life during times of stress and / or transformation. This aspect of the experience - the idea that life is being lived "Somewhere Else" references how "wintering" can feel like a detachment - is referenced in several other...