" Would you actually like to time-travel? She said. If you could, I mean, and time travel was a real thing? / Very much indeed, Daniel said. / Why? Elisabeth said. / Time travel is real, Daniel said. We do it all the time. Moment to moment, minute to minute. / He opened his eyes wide at Elisabeth. Then he put his hand in his pocket, took out a twenty pence piece, held it in front of Barbra the cat. He did something with his other hand and the coin disappeared! He made it disappear! The song about love being an easy chair filled the room. Barbra the cat was still looking in disbelief at Daniel’s empty hand. She put both paws up, held the hand, put her nose into it to look for the missing coin. Her cat face as full of amazement. / See how it’s deep in our animal nature, Daniel said. Not to see what’s happening right in front of our eyes. "
― Ali Smith , Autumn (Seasonal, #1)