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“Achilles lives in the present. He remembers the past, not without regret, but increasingly without resentment. He rarely, if ever, thinks about the future, because there is no future. It's amazing how easily he's come to accept that. His life rests like a dandelion clock on the palm of his open hand, a thing so light the merest breath of wind can carry it away. From somewhere - perhaps from Priam - he seems to have acquired an old man's acceptance of death. He knows there's no future and he really doesn't mind.”
― Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls

“Some people get so used to looking out at life from the edge of their cage that they stop seeing the bars.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Lore

“At best, Henry had only slowed an inevitable, history-shaping pandemic. Governments would fall. Economies would collapse. Wars would arise. Why did we think that our own modern era was immune to the assault of humanity’s most cunning and relentless enemy, the microbe?”
― Lawrence Wright, The End of October

“The past lay shattered and bleak, torn by trenches, thick with mines. But the future was rolling hills and untouched forest, an open sea, a fair-weather sky.
Nikolai followed his queen through the mountains and knew hope would lead them home.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves