Ah, but is any history really all that ancient?' Second asked. 'Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present?' This man was more annoying than any history teacher Jordan had ever had.

...is any history really all that ancient?...Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present?

The truth is, time travel is hard, and people are lazy.

He made time travel sound almost like hide-and-seek or capture the flag or some other spylike game--only with higher stakes and greater consequences.

Lies were something you told other people to make things easier, somehow - hopefully, for them, but often more selfishly for yourself.

When once we are buried you think we are gone. But behold me immortal!

You must never travel on the road of hopelessness because that road is deprived of any kind of light!

Feeling hopeless? But are you even there yet?

You walk on corpses, beauty, undismayed.

[To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together.

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

Everything ultimately comes down to trust.

Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.