Returns (The Library Trilogy, #1.6)

by Mark Lawrence

Every book is full of endings. Each sentence runs on, growing, building in complexity until its terminal punctuation brings it to a final, inarguable halt.

I saw every story this book has to offer in one many-facetted whole held within time’s jewel. But trading that vision for a place in the river, borne along with the rest of you, was a deal I would make again in a heartbeat. There is in the possibility of loss, and in every transient second of existence, a value and a beauty that cannot be seen from without.