His impatience for sleep often frightened that very sleep away.

We are born, we are shadows, we cast shadows of our own, and then we are gone. All anyone can hope for is to be remembered two shadows deep.

He continued to see inevitable events from the past as avoidable, long after they’d taken their course.

Whoever it was, whoever, every uprising took place because of this doubt, this feeling, that we’re in the bad place right here.”

“We are not the people who made this world, Lukas, but it’s up to us to survive it. You need to understand that.” “We can’t control where we are right now,” he mumbled, “just what we do going forward.”

Maybe now was a good time

Juliette had promised herself never to love in secret again, never to love at all. And somehow this time was worse: she had kept it a secret even from him. Even from herself.

“I don’t think he’d mind. And yes, he’s still with me. He motivates me every day to be a good person. I feel him watching me all the time.” “Me too,” Marnes said. Jahns looked up and saw that he was staring at her. “Do you think he’d want you to be happy? In all things, I mean?” He stopped rubbing his legs and sat there, hands on his knees, until

He was an easy man to figure, one of those who had grown old everywhere but in his heart, that one organ he had never worn out because he’d never dared to use it.