I am reading "All the King's Men"

Well, actually I'm listening to the audiobook in the studio as I stitch and paint.
I'm very interested in the idea of being read to, lately. The comfort of having "someone" read you a story, just like bedtime as a child. There is something soothing about the sound of someone's voice humming and stopping and starting, the rising and falling action, the details that you begin to imagine in your head. The way you tune in and out, half-listening until something sticks out hard and fast above the rest of the hum and inflection.

there are so many good moments in this book so far. so many little genius insights and descriptions to love for their truth.
but
Tonight this quote sticks out above the rest:

"If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting."
— Robert Penn Warren