Both Uses of
inertia
in
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
- She had seen this disorder every day without caring, but now, for the first time since the birth, she felt energy rather than inertia.†
p. 49.3 *
- Out of a desire to assuage it, she nearly took everything back, but she felt her earlier inertia, pushed aside with such great effort, lurking in the room.†
p. 50.8
Definition:
a tendency to continue in the same manner -- such as sit still and do nothing or continue moving in a particular direction