“...time is the master of perspective. A dispassionate master, breathtakingly efficient.”

“Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions.: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong. True history, the past, is not like that. It isn't flat or linear. It has no outline. It is slippery, like liquid; infinite and unknowable, like space. And it is changeable: just when you think you see a pattern, perspective shifts, an alternate version is proffered, a long-forgotten memory resurfaces.”

“So much in life came down to timing.”

“...and time thickened so that the seconds passed like years.”

“... time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised ...”

“The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.”

“Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.”