Welcome to Quotable Century (week 2)

Going to any place else requires of me that I am leaving Century, but staying here does not in turn require that time stands still. It is simply a beginning, without which nothing else follows.
Stay with me here, as time and space intertwine.
- from "Our Place in History: Turning Back Time"
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All stories end the same way.
What will be, will be.
- from "The Shape of Things to Come"
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(Quotations from stories/chapters in Welcome to the Dawning of a New Century, the forthcoming literary novel by Tony Simmons.)