Maylan Murray

“I was on a panel a few years ago with a philosopher who'd written a book on time. She said there were two prevailing theories, eternalism and presentism. Eternalism is the belief that everything that is, has been, and will be exists right now and forever, all at once. Presentism is the belief that only what exists in the present exists at all. Nothing before and nothing after. No exceptions. As we were walking off stage I asked her which she believed, and she told me she could make a strong case for either, but recently she was leaning toward presentism.
I didn't understand why she would lean toward presentism, why she would choose only the present moment — no past, no future — when she could have everything all at once for eternity. But standing here in line, with all these good people working to help others get better, it feels okay to me to have this moment and nothing else. It feels vast, open, beautiful. Only this right here right now. I feel happy. I have told him.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“I've spent my whole adult life staring across these kinds of distances, cut off from people my age who can't understand what I've been through and who want to push it away, not realising that loss of will come for them too, and sooner than they think. I know it's normal, I know it's not really their fault.”
― Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin, Ordinary Saints

“But you said thirty," I whispered. The tears leaked over the edge. "What? You're going to stay, but let me get all old anyway? Right.”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“We can and should trust novelists when they tell us the beautiful lies of their fiction.”
― Julian Barnes, Departure[s]