As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.

“Things might have been different if she hadn't been able to drift; if she'd had…”

“I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.”

“There had been something willed about it though, his ignorance. Or not willed, …”

“They were both in their own ways earnest; they both wanted to achieve some wort…”