Killing Commendatore: A novel

believe in all honesty that something will appear to guide me through the darkest and narrowest tunnel, or across the most desolate plain. That’s

Time is the remedy for your concerns. It is the key for all things that possess form. True, time does not last forever, but as long as you have it, it is remarkably efficacious. So look forward to the future, my friends!” “Thank you,” Mariye said.

this was the path I had chosen, and it was too late to choose another.

“Believe in yourself,”

“Once again, it is you who determines the path. You are the one who chose the proper route to reach this world. You paid a great price for that, and have crossed the river by boat. You cannot turn back now.”

“But fear is in my heart as well,” I said. “That’s what worries me. That my fear will distort what I see and push me in the wrong direction.”

Fear and suspicion can fashion eyes in the dark.

“I do not know. The destination is something you yourself must determine by following your own heart.”

plunged through the forest, trying hard to empty my mind. Any thoughts would likely lead me to an even darker place. The