"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…"

"It came as a pleasant shock to me, how the man I'd known as a rather dry intellectual transformed himself so complete…"

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