" We are, like fine bourbon, a different product at the end—and there is a sacrifice involved: We are made of the same core elements we were at first constructed of, but we are never the same afterward. We are permanently altered. If we are lucky and we are smart and we are freed at the right time, we are improved. If we aged too long, we are ruined forever.

Timing, like fate, is everything. "

― J.R. Ward , The Angels' Share (The Bourbon Kings, #2)