You must not think of time as a quantity, a period, a measure. Look at the sky, " Gwynneth said. "The moon has now slipped away to another night, into another world. It was not the time it was here that you remember, Faolan, but rather the luminescence of the air, the blue shadows cast by the trees in its light. It was not the length of the time but the quality of the moon's light that you felt and remember." Gwynneth paused. "It is the value, the quality that lives on. Kathryn Lasky
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“You must not think of time as a quantity, a period, a measure. Look at the sky," Gwynneth said. "The moon has now slipped away to another night, into another world. It was not the time it was here that you remember, Faolan, but rather the luminescence of the air, the blue shadows cast by the trees in its light.

It was not the length of the time but the quality of the moon's light that you felt and remember." Gwynneth paused. "It is the value, the quality that lives on." This quote is an advice to Faolan when they were in their teens. To him she told him not to worry about what time will be like in future or how long he will live.

She taught him that you must not think about time as just a quantity because there will be plenty of time for him to live and enjoy his life even after he dies.

Source: Lone Wolf

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