The Empire's Ruin (Ashes of the Unhewn Throne, #1)

by Brian Staveley

“Human minds are built to see a world of objects, but you are not an object, Gwenna. You are a process. You are the change taking place inside you. The woman at the end of this conversation will not be the woman who began it. The Gwenna who wakes up in the morning will not be the same Gwenna who went to sleep. It is impossible to fix a person in time. I could not pin you like a butterfly to a board any more than I could pin down a piece of music. Your essence lies in your unfolding.”