“You have to look backward to see the future,” he often said to his residents.--- stated by Dr Najjar. So true in many settings”

“Adam swallowed thickly. "Can you see the future?""I see many futures.""Many?""As many futures as there are choices.""Do I defeat the Death Collector in any of them?""No."A wave of helplessness rolled over him. So all this was pointless. The Collective was going to win after all. He couldn't breathe. He braced his hands on his knees as a devastating roar filled his head.Abigail clucked with her tongue. "Look at you. So arrogant. So self-important. You've gone and cast yourself as the hero. Do you really think this war is about you?"Adam's head snapped up.”

“You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.”

“He was looking backwards, and that was an entirely different thing. Looking backwards wasimportant, even when you were standing still. He had to see what was there. There was somethingback there, and even if everybody else didn't see it, he had to.”

“They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.”

“Houses are like books: so many of them around you, yet you only look at a few and visit or reside in fewer still.”