She had learned, in her life, that time lived inside you. You are time, you breathe time, though she hadn't understood why... Now she held inside her a cacophony of times and lately it drowned out the world.

David Wroblewski
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The time that she was once able to sense and understand has now vanished. It had become an abstract concept, something that had happened but never known, something that had been but never experienced.

Source: The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle

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