The Library at Mount Char

by Scott Hawkins

So however badly he might need to die, he could not.

Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.

No real thing can be so perfect as memory, and she will need a perfect thing if she is to survive. She will warm herself on the memory of you when there is nothing else, and be sustained.”

Some people have an enormous capacity for feeling guilt, deserved or otherwise.