That was the truly horrifying thing about it: the sense of time as an enemy, to be fought tooth and nail—but there was so much of it; you killed an hour, but what good did that do when there were thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions more hours just waiting to take its place?


The Escapement (ed. Orbit, 2009) - ISBN: 9780316077491

K. J. Parker Quotes

That was the truly horrifying thing about it: the sense of time as an enemy, to be fought tooth and nail—but there was so much of it; you killed an ...

That was the truly horrifying thing about it: the sense of time as an enemy, to be fought tooth and nail—but there was so much of it; you killed an ...

That was the truly horrifying thing about it: the sense of time as an enemy, to be fought tooth and nail—but there was so much of it; you killed an ...

That was the truly horrifying thing about it: the sense of time as an enemy, to be fought tooth and nail—but there was so much of it; you killed an ...