Amazing Grace Adams

“It’s as though her life has shot forward while she was looking the other way, and there’s a grief in it that wrenches her soul.”

“But what Torschlusspanik is intended to describe is that anxious, claustrophobic feeling that avenues and opportunities are shutting down. The notion that you haven’t done very much with your life, that you’ve missed the boat, that you’ve left it too late. Probably the closest term we have in English is mid-life crisis.”

“She’s not even close to knowing because time is playing tricks on her. There’s just the constant thrum of dread; the feeling she’s dropped something important along a roadside somewhere and she can’t find it.”

“hüzün. It’s an enigmatic Turkish word that has an Arabic root and it describes a spiritual anguish. The gloomy feeling that everything is in decline and that the situation—often political in nature—will probably get gradually worse.”

“Grace”

“Torschlusspanik is intended to describe is that anxious, claustrophobic feeling that avenues and opportunities are shutting down. The notion that you haven’t done very much with your life, that you’ve missed the boat, that you’ve left it too late. Probably the closest term we have in English is ‘midlife crisis’…”