People always said they wanted the truth, but really they were perfectly content with a facsimile. - Kate Atkinson

No point in thinking, you just have to get on with life. We only have one after all, we should try and do our best. We can never get it right, but we must try.

(“An eye for an eye,” Mac said at the squadron reunion. Until everyone was blind, Teddy wondered?)

Moments left, Teddy thought. A handful of heartbeats. That was what life was. A heartbeat followed by a heartbeat. A breath followed by a breath. One moment followed by another moment and then there was a last moment.