- Claire Fraser: How many times have I put my hopes, my fears, my secret longings into the hands of a Being I can't see, can't hear, can't even feel. And how many times have my prayers been answered. Time is a lot of things that people say God is. There is the pre-existing and having no end. There is the notion of being all powerful because nothing can stand against time, not mountains, not armies. Give anything enough time, and everything is taken care of. All pain encompassed, all hardship erased, all loss subsumed. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Remember man, thou art dust, and unto dust thou shalt return. And if time is anything akin to God, I suppose that memory must be the devil.