They live to experience. You don't get a much bigger experience than watching the end of the galaxy crashing down around you. #TheTemporalVoid #PeterFHamilton
For her, their presence served only to amplify the whole deadly panorama unfolding outside. #TheTemporalVoid #PeterFHamilton
Yet for all our enlightenment we're right back there sheltering from the onslaught in our nice dry cave. #TheTemporalVoid #PeterFHamilton
I'm going to carry the torch for all of us. If I fail, then we try something else. That's being human, too. #TheTemporalVoid #PeterFHamilton
But she had eliminated certainty from his life, he was flying on logic and fatality now. #TheTemporalVoid #PeterFHamilton
From the eternal thoughts whirling within. Thoughts that called, mournfully and eagerly, feelings which intrigued. #TheTemporalVoid #PeterFHamilton
Al that, all those unknowns from centuries ago had come pressing down on her, had taken away her destiny, her self-determination. Fate had chosen her. #TheTemporalVoid
#PeterFHamilton
She'd felt that wounded astonishment linger as she withdrew her mind from contact. That wasn't an answer which fitted its reality. #TheTemporalVoid #PeterFHamilton
She would make him as happy as he made her. And the future would be bright and lovely and full of promise.
#TheTemporalVoid #PeterFHamilton
So much was waiting for her out there in the years to come, so many discoveries. So much joy. #TheTemporalVoid #PeterFHamilton
This will end. Eventually. I will endure and ride it out. #TheTemporalVoid #PeterFHamilton
For the full hour that followed there were no distractions, no external thoughts and doubts. #TheTemporalVoid #PeterFHamilton
Her thoughts were drifting back to the revelations of last night with the surety of a tide. #TheTemporalVoid #PeterFHamilton
They're here for me. A whole world invaded, violated because of me. #TheTemporalVoid #PeterFHamilton
All right, but you're obdurate. #TheTemporalVoid #PeterFHamilton
Showing their defiance through an obstinate insistence on pursuing their normal day as best as they could. #TheTemporalVoid #PeterFHamilton
He smiled, his eyes still closed as he sighed a delighted welcome to the new day. #TheTemporalVoid #PeterFHamilton
The memories of last night gained texture, and he remembered her delight and exactly how to cause it. #TheTemporalVoid #PeterFHamilton
He never was sure exactly who was corrupting who. #TheTemporalVoid #PeterFHamilton
I would simply ask you to consider what you can accomplish on the outside looking in. #TheTemporalVoid #PeterFHamilton
There had been so many upheavals, she was his constant in a very unsteady life. #TheTemporalVoid #PeterFHamilton
For once let the heart rule, not the mind. #TheTemporalVoid #PeterFHamilton
We would be equals. True lovers. #TheTemporalVoid #PeterFHamilton
As if it had no more substance than fog. #TheTemporalVoid #PeterFHamilton
They need to be shown a different way. That's all. / Too late. This is what they know, it's the way life is lived here. You can't change it. #TheTemporalVoid #PeterFHamilton
The sun hung at the apex of the world's sapphire sky, bleaching all colour out of the desert. It was always thus. #TheTemporalVoid #PeterFHamilton
If I don't know, I can't be forced to reveal it. /
But you do know. It's buried somewhere in your subconscious. /
Yes, but I can't get to it unless the circumstances are coming up straight aces. #TheTemporalVoid #PeterFHamilton
You've damaged your own psyche with so much meddling. / I've told you often before, and I'll enjoy telling you many times again: I like what I am. #TheTemporalVoid #PeterFHamilton
The shadowy spectres of sensation that lurked within her subconscious expanded outwards. She let her attention swim across the myriad thoughts it contained. #TheTemporalVoid #PeterFHamilton
She drifted further, devoid of urgency. #TheTemporalVoid #PeterFHamilton