“Strange, what being forced to slow down could do to a person.”

“She could not descend to an existence where her brain would explode under the pressure of forcing itself not to outdistance incompetence. She could not function to the rule of: Pipe down-keep down-slow down-don't do your best, it is not wanted!”

“it's good for you to write down your thoughts. It'stherapeutic because it forces you to slow down and think aboutlife.”

“It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.”

“What madness! Yet she would do it, if she could force herself. She'd become, she believed, a stronger person: a willful, resolute. Like the man who adored her, reckless.”

“slowing down your responses and becoming a better listeners aids you in becoming a more peaceful person”