Ashes of Man (Sun Eater, #5)

by Christopher Ruocchio

But to know a thing and to see it, to experience it, are as different as the moon and the finger pointing to it. Knowledge is not truth, only the apprehension of it. Experience is something else entirely.

Despite horror, despite . . . everything. Time does not stop. Not ever. Not even once. The future comes, whatever it may hold.

every action matters, that every moment of every life is the moment, the axis about which all things turn, understand that I say these things because they are true. Every step, every turn, every refusal to step. Everything matters.