The House of a Hundred Whispers

Yet without time we would never have the chance to find love, or happiness, or excitement. Whatever fulfilment we find in life, time brings it to us, even if the day will inevitably come when it drains it all away again, like an ebbing tide sliding away across the sand.

Ada understood then that living for ever, suspended for all eternity in the same second, was a far worse punishment than death.

Sometimes you can be faced with something that frightens the living shit out of you, but life doesn’t give you any other choice except to confront it head-on. Timmy’s our son. I’m his father and I have to save him or die trying.’

my destiny. Sometimes you’re confronted with things in your life and you realise that you have to deal with them. You don’t have a choice, because that’s what you were born for.

Please, Ada. We can’t answer you, not without jeopardising our lives. We don’t want to live like this, but we don’t want to die.’