“Pale and massive, he absorbed time like a sponge. Moved something, wiped something, adjusted something, but the future never came.”
“The way you move — you orient yourself around him without even thinking about it. When he moves, even a little bit, you adjust your position at the same time. Like magnets… or gravity. You’re like a… satellite, or something.”
“I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable."Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice.”
“Colin: I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.Hassan: Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice.”
“Then she smiled, just a flash, and something moved in Liam’s chest. Something warm, and something he hadn’t felt in a long time.”
“Something inside me squeezes up tight like a sponge that is being wrung out”