“Time is a snake-oil remedy if you ask me. Some wounds just keep hurtin...” — David Wroblewski Quote

“Time is a snake-oil remedy if you ask me. Some wounds just keep hurting as bad as they ever did.”

“...do you actually think that how long a person grieves is a measure of how much they loved someone?”

“It was one thing to live in a world where death stood a distant figure, quite another to hold it in your hands.”

“She had learned, in her life, that time lived inside you. You are time, you breathe time, though she hadn't understood why... Now she held inside her a cacophony of times and lately it drowned out the world.”

“She had learned, in her life, that time lived inside you. You are time, you breathe time. When she'd been young, she'd had an insatiable hunger for more of it, though she hadn't understood why. Now she held inside her a cacophony of times and lately it drowned out the world. The apple tree was still nice to lie near. They peony, for its scent, also fine. When she walked through the woods (infrequently now) she picked her way along the path, making way for the boy inside to run along before her. It could be hard to choose the time outside over the time within.”

“How old do you have to be to think: this is forever?”

“The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.”

“You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.”

“UNTIL DEATH DO US PART”

“For at a certain point in time even the greatest architecture ceases to be completely architecture and becomes partially landscape. Sometimes the wheel at last turns full circles; the pyramids are now wholly landscape, Stonehenge but faintly architecture.”

“Astfgl sat back. He wondered what did happen to Lavaeoulus.”