Kindle Notes & Highlights
peas in the proverbial pod,
wan
Huck and Jim and floated down the Mississippi
Cardinal Richelieu with the other Musketeers.
toreador’s twirl.
Her appetite had never been exactly bird-like
Don’t want to change time when it shouldn’t be changed.”
implicit
“Changing time is wrong.”
“I’m out of time.”
pun.”
patrician
“In the days when everybody started fair, Best Beloved, the Leopard lived in a place called the High Veldt ….”
How the Leopard Changed its Spots - Kipling
George Hawkins?”
another organization—The Society of Elect.
The Illuminati?”
until two years ago.”
Rhodes Scholars
businessman and politician in South Africa in the latter part of the 19th century. He was also fiercely loyal to the crown. A dyed-in-the-wool imperialist who believed that the Great British Empire should be expanded to the point of Global Governance.”
“So they’re going to … what? Change history?”
I’m still trying to get more information about precisely what they plan on doing and how.” “And when.”
“They’ve put a freeze on the watches. None of them work.
waiting for something.”
It’s almost as though the first part of their plan requires something to happen here. Now.”
“We’re facing a potential rewriting of everything we’ve ever known.”
Simon insisted they always keep the door open. He said it made him feel closer to Charlotte.
today was marked in red on the calendar.
stoic
“It’s a girl,”
ubiquitous
you know what they’re up to.”
“Nexus points.
some points in time that aren’t vulnerable, but others are?”
“The birth of Charlotte Cross.”
“At some point in the future. Charlotte Cross will bring down Hawkins and the rest. In order to stop that from happening,
they plan to make sure she will never be born at all.”
“We have two days, before …” “Before Elizabeth is killed?”
“one of those nexus points I mentioned is approaching.”
a toast with water again?
vicariously.”
babymoons.”
loved about California. Desert, beach, mountains,
an explosion. A huge red and orange fireball erupted from the house.
Elizabeth was dead.
He could feel something just beyond his reach, like a thought in his peripheral vision, but he couldn’t grasp it. Why couldn’t he hold it?
How could anything possibly matter again?
stared at the second hand as it slowly ticked forward. The world turning outside, time passing.
He could go back in time and save her.
“The watches don’t work,” Wells said. “The new Council leadership froze them all.”
Knowing it was destined to fail, but trying anyway,
