Lockstep: A Novel Highlight

“time isn’t the working out of a predesigned destiny. Time is the possibility of surprise.” Toby had a sudden startled image of the two types of time: one that pushed, with all the terrible weight of the iron-bound laws of history behind it; and one that pulled you forward into a future of limitless possibilities. “So what does believing in surprise get you?” he mused, looking up at again at the stars. “What do you think, silly? It gives us the one thing that the oak in the acorn never can: “Hope.”