" half smile that was even more attractive than ever. ‘Time tends to get away from me occasionally. I sometimes think if I ever stopped and thought about it … Time, I mean … It piles up behind us and we don’t realise it, and then, one day, we look over our shoulder and all that time is looming over us like a massive cliff, poised to fall at any moment … burying us alive in our memories. "

― Jodi Taylor , Dark Light (Elizabeth Cage, #2)