" You will not be here--I shall not be here--much longer.'

'Let us not think of time.'

'We have reached Faust's non-plus. We say to every moment "Verweile doch, du bist so sch&oumln," and if we are not immediately damned, the stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike. But it is open to us to regret each minute as it passes.'

'We shall be exhausted.'

'And is not that a good state to end in?

"

― A.S. Byatt , Possession