“Things happen when people are not where they belong, and the world moves forward and back by that principle.”
― Canada
― Canada
“Zel so often put himself outside of where he wanted to be and then looked in dumbly through the window of his longing, hurt and beaten and knowing that he had hurt and beaten himself but still he did it, over and over.”
― The Gap of Time
― The Gap of Time
“Be not inhospitable to strangers, lest they be angels in disguise.”
― The Gap of Time: The Winter’s Tale Retold
― The Gap of Time: The Winter’s Tale Retold
“Nature doesn't rhyme her children,' I said, happy to remember the line of Emerson's”
― Canada
― Canada
“Sometimes it doesn't matter that there was any time before this time. Sometimes it doesn't matter that it's night or day or now or then. Sometimes where you are is enough. It's not that time stops or that it hasn't started. This is time. You are here. This caught moment opening into a lifetime.”
― The Gap of Time
― The Gap of Time
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