[S-mile]

Are the skies you sleep under likely to open up for weeks on end? Is the ground you walk on likely to tremble and split? Is there a chance that the ominous mountain casting a midday shadow over your home might one day erupt with no rhyme or reason? Because if the answer is yes to one or all of these questions, then the life you lead is a midnight thing, always a hair's breadth from the witching hour; it is volatile, it is threadbare; it is carefree in the true sense of that term; it is light, losable like a key or a hair clip...There's nothing to stop you - or rather anything could stop you, any hour, any minute. That feeling. That's the real difference in a life.

(с) Zadie Smith

Ничего не читала из неё - в фике встретила эту цитату, а, судя по всему, стоит хотя бы заглянуть.