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“We keep it so to remember,” he said. “To show to the weans, and tell them when they ask—this is what the English are.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Voyager

“The movement of the wheel is relentless. All changes; all moves on.”
― Juliet Marillier , Son of the Shadows

“The moment was gone; he saw it going. He did not try to hold on to it. He knew he was part of it, not it of him. He was in its keeping.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“He listened to the next stream of invective and then voiced his doubt as to the likelihood of St. Colman actually putting boils on the arse of the man who’d been unfortunate enough to deliver warped beams to Casey Riordan, being that the saint in question was responsible for hanged men, horned cattle and horses.”
― Cindy Brandner, Where Butterflies Dream