A year went past. The days followed one another patiently. Right back at the beginning of the multiverse they had tried all passing at the same time, and it hadn’t worked. (WS)
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People don’t alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it. (M)
History isn’t like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it always –eventually – manages to spring back into its old familiar shape. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It’s been around a long time. (M)
'Wen considered the nature of time and understood that the universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. Therefore, he understood, there is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your eyes and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore, he said, the only appropriate state of mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it.' (TOT)
... he was one of those rare individuals who are totally focused in time. Most people aren’t. They live their lives as a sort of temporal blur around the point where their body actually is – anticipating the future, or holding on to the past. They’re usually so busy thinking about what happens next that the only time they ever find out what is happening now is when they come to look back on it. Most people are like this. They learn how to fear because they can actually tell, down at the subconscious level, what is going to happen next. It’s already happening to them. (WS)
‘ – dawn is a place as well as a time,’ said Einstein, spreading his hands.
‘What on earth do you mean?’ said Mrs Liberty. ‘On Earth, and around the earth,’ said Einstein, getting excited. ‘One night and one day, forever chasing one another.’ ‘There is a night that never comes to an end,’ said Mr Fletcher. ‘All you need is speed…’ ‘Relatively speaking,’ said Einstein. (JD) 'So much universe, and so little time.' (LH)
An edge witch is one who makes her living on the edges, in that moment when the boundary conditions apply – between life and death, light and dark, good and evil and, most dangerously of all, today and tomorrow. (TOT)
There are very few starts. Oh, some things seem to be beginnings. The curtain goes up, the first pawn moves,
the first shot is fired* – but that’s not the start. The play, the game, the war is just a little window on a ribbon of events that may extend back thousands of years. The point is, there is always something before. It’s always a case of Now Read On. *Probably at the first pawn (LL) |
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