Ashes of Man (Sun Eater, #5)

by Christopher Ruocchio

One cannot step in the same river twice, and home is not home when you return, for you are not yourself. The man you were yesterday died yesterday, and is only a piece of the man of today, as you will be tomorrow.

Grief is deep water. Rage is blindness.

All life is tragedy, for all life must end—and so no life grows stronger by its ending.

“Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.”

Time does not stop. Not ever. Not even once. The future comes, whatever it may hold. Alone of all the things and forces in the universe, Time will never end, and will remain—ticking on—after even Death has died and the universe lies dark and cold.