Quotes About Time

imaginary futures are always, regardless of what the authors might think, about the day in which they're written.

It always makes me uncomfortable," Netherton said, "to see them learn they're in a stub. And then they all immediately assume we're from their future.

it seemed that it was changing subtly, cooking itself down under the pressure of time, silent invisible flakes settling to form a mulch, a crystalline essence of discarded technology, flowering secretly in the Sprawl's waste places.

El cráneo era clara y preocupantemente visible; parecía estar pocas micras más allá de lo que el tiempo había respetado de su rostro. —

you can`t recycle wasted time

I dislike calling them stubs," Lowbeer said. "They're short because we've only just initiated them, by reaching into the past and making that first contact. We should call them branches, as they literally are.

nothing acquires quite as rapid or peculiar a patina of age as an imaginary future.

You got a watch?" he asked Maelcum. The Zionite shook his locks. "Time be time." "Jesus," Case said, and closed his eyes.

If only one had time to think!

Lavoravano dunque con grande energia ed allegria, benché col passar del tempo ci fosse un tantino di panico nell'energia, e d'isterismo nell'allegria.

I guess the most amazing thing about crying though is that when you're in it, you think it'll go on forever but it never really lasts half what you think. Not in terms of real time. In terms of real emotions, it's worse than you think, but not by the clock.

The writing is never what takes the most time. It's trying to figure what you're going to put down that fills the days. With anger at your own ineptitude, with frustration that nothing is happening inside your head, with panic that maybe nothing will ever happen inside your head, with blessed little moments that somehow knit together so that you can begin to visualize a scene.

Hace una hora, creí que te amaba más de lo que ninguna mujer ha amado nunca a un hombre, pero media hora más tarde, supe que lo que había sentido entonces no era nada comparado con lo que sentí después. Mas al cabo de diez minutos, comprendí que mi amor anterior era un charco comparado con el mar embravecido antes de la tempestad.

The infant is ten and he stays

Pienso que lo más asombroso de llorar es que cuando empiezas, crees que no pararás nunca, pero en realidad no dura ni siquiera la mitad de lo que habías creído.

What with one thing and another, three years passed.

It's not important, believe me; the past has a way of being past.

I have loved you for several hours now, and every second, more.

he didn't forget this either. He just didn't remember it in time. . . . 

I have loved you for several hours now

I could feel almost my heart emptying into my pillow. Iguess the most amazing thing about crying though is that when you're in it, you think it'll go on forever but it never really lasts half what you think. Not in terms of real time.

It must have been fifty seconds before Doc died. Long time.

Te amo. Te amo. Te abandoné en el Pantano de Fuego para poner a prueba tu amor. ¿Es tan grande como el mío por ti? ¿Acaso pueden dos amores así existir en un mismo planeta y al mismo tiempo? ¿Hay lugar para algo así, amado Westley...?

Tennessee said it best: "Sometimes there's God so quickly.