In life, the hardest decisions often have to be made more than once. But each time, it gets easier.

Never trust a storyteller," he says. "We're all of us liars.

When you are in pain, a moment is an eternity.

In life, the hardest decisions often have to be made more than once. But each time, it gets easier.

Clockwork could not run counter to its nature. The seconds, minutes, and hours moved only forward. Patient, precise, and unstoppable. Memory was an indulgence, an illusion that broke like a wave upon the juggernaut of time. The past remained the past.

Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.

You are stronger than me," Asa says. "And in bravery and strength, there is a kind of beauty.