"Before she became the Girl from Nowhere-the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, who lived a thousand year…"

"I feel as if I've entered a new era of my life. What strange places our lives carry us to. What dark passages."

"It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when …"

"Richards remembered the day - that glorious and terrible day - watching the planes slam into the towers, the image re…"

"It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born."

"As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become…"

"Mankind had built a world that would take a hundred years to die. A century for the last light to go out."

"His gaze widened, then taking in the entirety of the camp. All these people: they were trapped. And not merely by the…"

"The mind works wondrously; it is capable of astonishing feats. It is the only machine in nature capable of thinking o…"

"As one moves out to sea, the world's dimensions change. While things on land grow distant, the sea increases in its e…"