Dispel Illusion (Impossible Times, #3)

by Mark Lawrence

forward time travel is just an advanced form of waiting.’

‘The optimist sets themself up for disappointment. I’m just aiming for a little realism.

I had left that boy behind in my wake, just as we all abandon the children we were. Slow or fast, the years pull us apart from them, sometimes in one savage yank, sometimes by degrees, like the hour hand of the clock, too stealthy for us to perceive its motion and yet when you look again it is no longer where you left it.

Memory is all we are,

‘All good stories come full circle in the end. You should know that, Nick.’