The Signature of All Things: A Novel

contrivance,

She could almost hear her mind pacing within her skull, caged and bothered, and she felt the weight of all the years she had yet to live, bearing down upon her with heavy menace.

ebullience

The only unforgivable crime is to cut short the experiment of one’s own life before its natural end. To do so is a weakness and a pity—for the experiment of life will cut itself off soon enough, in all our cases, and one may just as well have the courage and the curiosity to stay in the battle until one’s eventual and inevitable demise. Anything le

firmament

“You see, I have never felt the need to invent a world beyond this world, for this world has always seemed large and beautiful enough for me.

There is so much more potency to be found in detail than in generalities, but most souls cannot train themselves to sit still for it.”

At the other end of the spectrum, Alma postulated, there was Divine Time—an incomprehensible eternity in which galaxies grew, and where God dwelled.

accretion