Empire of Silence (The Sun Eater, #1)

by Christopher Ruocchio

The man who hopes for the future delays its arrival, and the man who dreads it summons it to his door. Augustine once said that if there are such things as the past and the future, they do not exist as such but are only the present in their own times. The past, he says, exists only in memory and the future only in expectation. Neither is real.