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“There are many branches of time reaching from your bodies—I can see them attached to one another. Humans call it fate, but it’s nothing so poetic as that. It’s simply time. Time, and the decisions you make as it passes, which in turn make history. When one decision becomes impossible, the thread snaps, leaving you fewer and fewer choices.”

Book:Timekeeper

Source: Timekeeper

“Hopeless creatures, the lot of you.”

Book:Timekeeper

Source: Timekeeper

“Danny had never been so aware for anyone else in his life. Everything shrank from a universe to a pinpoint, every turn of the earth dependent on his next breath, each touch lingering until those eyes found his. Colton pressed a hand to Danny’s chest and laid his mouth gently against his. Danny wasn’t prepared for it—the reminder that Colton was not like him, that his palms were smooth and free of flaws, that his wrist showed no veins, that his mouth tasted of copper and of sweet clean air. He was a boy of air and dust and sunlight. Everything that had gone into the making of the world.”

Kissing Kissing Quotes

Book:Timekeeper

Source: Timekeeper

“The clock chimed five. It sounded almost celebratory as they stood there, hands clasped between them like the meeting of continents. Colton’s mouth was soft and warm, sunlight on silk. Danny was swallowing light. It dived down inside of him until he imagined it bursting out of every pore.”

Kissing Kissing Quotes

Book:Timekeeper

Source: Timekeeper

“You and I both know there's no end to grief. The solution is to find a way to live alongside it, rather than allowing it to lead you by its leash.”

Grief Mourning Grief And Loss Grief Quotes

Book:The City of Dusk

Source: The City of Dusk

“He punched the wall over and over until his knuckles split and bled. Until he could convince himself the tears on his face were from pain.”

Book:Timekeeper

Source: Timekeeper

“London had been different. Everyone had been constantly moving, their eyes focused elsewhere, pretending no one around them existed.”

London Big City

Book:Chainbreaker

Source: Chainbreaker

“Fuck duty." It was a sentiment she had carried for years, but it had a different flavor in her mouth now, tinged not with adolescent rebellion but with weary disillusionment. What good was something like duty when it amounted to little more than unchallenged obedience?”

Duty Rebellion Rebel Duty And Attitude

Book:The City of Dusk

Source: The City of Dusk

“Two o’clock was missing.”

Time Opening Line

Book:Timekeeper

Source: Timekeeper

“He had been groomed to hunt beasts and yet somehow, he had become a hunting ground, a land wrecked by tooth and claw and one woman's arrow tip pointed between his eyes.”

Book:The City of Dusk

Source: The City of Dusk

“They would be shocked if they could see the other women in London: automechanics with grease in their hair, fisherwomen in from te coast with tatooed arms.”

Feminism 16th Century

Book:Timekeeper

Source: Timekeeper

“Coming to my rescue?' she asked in her midnight voice. He watched her breathe, the way her ribs expanded with it, the way the shadows still clung devotedly to her, caressing her skin like a jealous lover. His lungs burned. His blood burned. He didn't know if he was staring at a killer of monsters, or a monster herself.”

Darkness Magic Monsters Shadows Powerful Women Monster Hunter

Book:The City of Dusk

Source: The City of Dusk