“We moved house often, and each time it appeared that it was the perfecting of our environment that was causing us to leave it, as though living there had been a process of construction that was now complete. (…) To continue creating, a person perhaps has to maintain an essential discomfort in the world.”
– Rachel Cusk, “Making House: Notes on Domesticity,” The New York Times Magazine 31 August 2016
[See Andrea Barrett and Mary Ruefle.]