I can’t quite describe it but here are some book quotes that encapsulate what I’m looking for
“The movement of the wheel is relentless. All changes; all moves on.”
― Juliet Marillier, Son of the Shadows
“The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough.”
“But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
“That look said, this is a long good-bye, yet not time enough. I have no aptitude for this. I cannot learn this. I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.”
― Juliet Marillier, Son of the Shadows
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*The Sunflower Protocol* by Andre Soares. The narrative structure itself is centered on time being a precious resource.
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, particularly the sections of Roger Bevins III
The Other Wind by Ursula le Guin