Lost in Time

this book has a lot of my life story in it. Many of the details have been covered in my previous author notes—the loss of my mother, the birth of my daughter and son and trying to raise them, and my career in internet start-ups. I do hope that you enjoyed the novel and that it’s given you some escape from the hectic world around us.

The class was PSYCH 20N: How Beliefs Create Reality.” “That’s the one.” “It was all about how our perception of the world around us is shaped by our convictions, mental health, physical health, and environment.”

In my experience, things rarely turn out the way you expect them to.

Adeline could tell he was excited about the idea. “You love this, don’t you?” Hiro nodded. “I do. I love the math of it. Building things. And the risk of departures and recall.” He looked up.

In a way, that was the island’s ultimate power: it used time to heal.

Hope was his anchor to this world.

One memory that had always stuck with Adeline was the moment the first Absolom prisoner had disappeared in the box. In that split second, she had seen total fear in the man’s eyes. She didn’t see that in her father. He was scared, but in his eyes, she saw resolve. She saw hope. She saw a man who believed he had a future. A man who was alone but bel

In the absence of certainty, a mind tends to imagine the worst.

As a child, Adeline’s vision of the world was that of something that changed gradually. Like so many things in her life, her perspective was quite a bit different in adulthood. To her, the world seemed to change slowly for long stretches, then very rapidly, in great shocks that happened almost instantly.