That was what humans did: They left on another messages through time, …

Cassandra Clare
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That was what humans did: They left on another messages through time, pressed between pages or carved into rock. Like reaching out a hand through time, and trusting in a phantom hoped-for hand to catch yours. Humans did not last forever. They could only hope what they made would endure. ✨ Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). The Bane Chronicles, p.39, Simon and Schuster
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