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Quotes About Time

I opened my fist. Maruchan had stolen lipstick for me. Revlon Super Lustrous 919: Red Ruin, worn almost all the way down to the nub by some dead woman's lips. After that, a lot of years went by but they weren't anything special.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
God sighed, for all physical processes are reversible in theory—but not in practice.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
You never feel so grown up as when you are eleven, and never so young and unsure as when you are forty. That
~ Catherynne M. Valente
It's hard, dusty work, but Papo always says if you don't ride the present like the devil it'll get right away from you because it's a feral little creature with a terrible personality and no natural predators.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Kõik emad teavad, et lapsed jooksevad kiiremini kui õhusuudlused. Õigupoolest on õhusuudluse kiirus kosmiline konstant, nagu ütleks doktor Fallow. Lapse kiirusel ei ole piire.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
My master lit a candle in the long midwinter's past Now summer comes and all the fields are burning black and fast.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Life outraces memory.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
History so often is. Especially when it's not history but is now.
~ Cathleen Schine
I notice how the relationships I did manage to cling to are starting to fade away. My friends have lives of their own and they move onwards, like a film reel before me.
~ Cathryn Kemp
A period is just the beginning of a lifelong sentence.
~ Cathy Crimmins
have to wait. We can get married in a few weeks.
~ Cathy Gillen Thacker
Growing is a patient thing, lad," Daniel explained. "You must give all living things time to adjust to their new surroundings, their new soil, then time to grow, as well.
~ Cathy Gohlke
happiness. All those years with Marc
~ Cathy Kelly
individuals who contributed their time and energy.
~ Cathy N. Davidson
As the poet Prageeta Sharma said, Americans have an expiration date on race the way they do for grief. At some point, they expect you to get over it.
~ Cathy Park Hong
As the poet Prageeta Sharma said, Americans have an expiration date on race the way they do for grief.
~ Cathy Park Hong
Quid est, Catulle? quid moraris emori? [...]
~ Catullo
POOR Catullus, 'tis time you should cease your folly, and account as lost what you see is lost.
~ Catullus
Memories were fine but you couldn't touch them, smell them or hold them. They were never exactly as the moment was, and they faded with time.
~ Cecelia Ahern
Often when we realize how precious those seconds are, it's too late for them to be captured because the moment has passed. We realize too late.
~ Cecelia Ahern
Memories were fine but you couldn't touch them, smell them or hold them. They were never exactly as the moment was, and they faded with time.
~ Cecelia Ahern
West Bank women's groups argued that the time wasn't right, that the struggle for independence from Israeli rule had to come before questions of women's rights could be raised. The
~ Geraldine Brooks
For a girl raised on the rim of a wilderness, it was strange to be in a place where every inch of ground had been settled for hundreds upon hundreds of years. I felt the press of people, and the press of ghosts—great hordes of those who had lived and walked before me.
~ Geraldine Brooks
We have grown older together, trapped in the aspic of our age gap.
~ Geraldine Brooks