Quotes About Time

He tells me that he knows Max from freshman year—roughly twenty years—and I remember that a huge number of Oberlin friends are here and ask what bonds them all for life. He says No one else will be friends with us.

I remembered my father's speech about what Jack was capable of and wasn't; he'd said, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HOW MUCH JACK LOVES YOU. I thought about all the girls he'd stopped loving; it was like he had a timer, and at a certain point it buzzed.

I said, Is my father dying? He looked at me steadily. We're all dying, Jane.

Memories were moving pictures in which meaning was constantly in flux. They were stories people told themselves.

It was time to say good-bye. I love you. Always, Jack sent. Always and forever.

You're late, she said, tapping her watch. No, you're just early.

Trust me to return to you. I will wait forever. however long it takes.

Do you ever sense a little silver sliver of sadness around your happiest memories? I'm not sure I know what you mean... I do. There's something about remembering that just isn't the same as the real thing. No matter how happy it makes you feel. When you remember something, you have to recognize that the moment will never happen again.

We've been wicked for such a very long time, you know. It does get tiresome after a while.

I will wait forever, she promised. However long it takes.

Forever as it turns out, is a very long time.

Time did not mean anything to those who had too much of it, but it was even more precious once it was limited.

Yet even though they were together, she could not stop worrying about how much time they would have-

I give myself to you. she whispered. No. Not yet, he sighed. If not now, when?... Time might be running out for me. For us.

It is my turn to wait. Funny that in all these months we have been meeting, it was always she waiting for me.

We are wolves of the guard, soldiers of the light. Hunted and haunted,bye the beasts of night. Friend to all and foe to none, Love and loyalty bind us as one. Time and tide shall heal all wounds Memories and madness shall not consume. To death and despair we shall never surrender, The pact never to be forsaken, or torn asunder.

There was no such thing as a happy ending, only a happy present.

We are wolves of the guard, soldiers of the light. Hunted and haunted,by the beasts of night. Friend to all and foe to none, Love and loyalty bind us as one. Time and tide shall heal all wounds Memories and madness shall not consume. To death and despair we shall never surrender, The pact never to be forsaken, or torn asunder.

In other words, time was a kind of palimpsest, traces of the past peeking through the present, only to be written over in the future again.

Feelings, which aren't always rational, have their own life span and sometimes, for whatever reason, need to be lived out.

Hey you." She smiled and traced a finger on his cheek. "Where have you been?" "Right here, always," Jack murmured, kissing her all over her face, her neck. But there was little time for tenderness

If I could go back to my girlhood and its freedom, I would. But that's never possible: life pushes us forward, into more complications than we ever imagined as children.

Wives get five years to make up their minds

A breakup is the single most traumatic event in the life of a woman outside of a death. Some women can take years to recover.