Strangers in Time

by David Baldacci

“If you know where everything is, there is never a sense of surprise or discovery, which she believed were the most delightful sensations.

what else does one do with books besides read them and then wonder about what one has just read? And, even more pleasurably, what one will read next?”

That’s the point of dreams, of reaching for something so impossible, so impractical, often something so undeserved, that the act of wishing for it defines more about us than the actual dream does.”

She knew there was a price to be paid with important relationships like that. They were wonderful, but they also had the capacity to exact a punishing price when one in the relationship was gone. Grief, sadness, anger at a loss, and terrible, unrelenting hurt were the costs to be paid for loving and being loved. It felt completely worth the bargain right up until the very moment payment was demanded.