1. Nobody knows, nobody can ever know, not even in memory, because there are moments in time that are not knowable.
The Shadow Lines
2. People think that knowing the future can help you prepare for what is to come - but often it only makes you powerless.
Gun Island
3. Why should we try, why not just take the world as it is? I told her how he had said that we had to try because the alternative wasn’t blankness – it only meant that if we didn’t try ourselves, we would never be free of other people’s inventions.
The Shadow Lines
