" There is a kind of organic mercy, grown deep inside us, which makes it so much easier to care about small, close things, else how could we live? As I grew up, crisis slid from distant threat to imminent probability and we tuned it out like static, we adjusted to each emergent normality and we did what we had always done - the commutes and holidays, the Friday big shops, day trips to the countryside, afternoons in the park. "

― Jessie Greengrass , The High House