Waking Gods (Themis Files, #2)

by Sylvain Neuvel

You, my friend, are a very complex, awe-inspiring configuration of matter. What you’re made of isn’t really important. Everything in the universe is made of the same thing. You’re a configuration. Your essence, as you call it, is information. It doesn’t matter where the material comes from. Do you think it matters when it comes from?

I came to realize that good and evil were out of my reach, that time was the only thing I had any control over.