Strangers in Time

by David Baldacci

Books filled with truth, turned to ash, and turning minds the same in their absence.

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.

We all need someone at certain times in our lives. It makes the inevitable pain lessened and the periods of happiness exalted.