Quotes About Time

They should be going to sleep, but good company is the enemy of sleep. We remember this feeling so acutely - the desire to linger away the hours with someone else, talking or holding or even just watching a movie. In those moment, the clock seems arbitrary, since you are setting your understanding of time to another, more personal measure.

Time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.

the sadness will ebb the trouble is the time it might take

We were once the ones who were living, and then we were the ones who were dying. We sewed ourselves, a thread's width, into your history.

What are you thinking, Evan? So I told him. Every you, every me. Fractals. Fracturs. I wonder who she is now, I said. So do I, Jack admitted. All the time.

So even though it doesn't seem like anything's changed— —things change all the time, mostly in little ways. That's how it goes, I guess." Sofia nodded. "Funny how we say it goes. That's the way life goes.

Why was I thinking about this? Oh, yes—the roses. Something to keep. Something gone.

The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday

The past and the future are complicated. It's the present that's simple.

It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present. Her absence was palpable, even though she was still in the room.

Imperceptible, adj. We stopped counting our relationship in dates (first date, second date, fifth, date, seventh) and started counting it in months. That might have been the first true commitment, this shift in terminology. We never talked about it, but we were at a party and someone asked how long we`d been together, and when you said, A month and a half," I knew we had gotten there.

People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted.

Así que, un día cuando dos hombres pasaron por delante de ellos tomados de la mano, Austin dijo:—Oye podríamos ser nosotros dentro de diez años. Y Hugo dijo:—O de diez meses. Y Austin dijo:—O de diez días. Y Hugo dijo:—O de diez minutos. Y Austin dijo:—O de diez segundos. Entonces, contaron hasta diez y se tomaron de la mano y no se soltaron durante el resto del día.

i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time

We lost track of time because we felt like time had lost track of us.

Two sixty-three. Noah tells me. ?!??? I reply.

People take love's continuity for granted...

This, I've discovered, is the best way to waste time, because it isn't really wasted -- surrounded by friends, talking crap and sometimes talking for real, with snacks around and something on a screen.

Perhaps it never happened. Perhaps it happened while I was asleep. Most likely, there's no signal event. There's just the steady accumulation of 'awhile'.

But I loved the notion that the night was mine to spend, and I immediately decided to spend it on you.

As if that in some way made it better, that fate hadn't planned it weeks in advance.

once time is lit, it will burn whether or not you're breathing it in. even after smoke becomes air there is the memory of smoke.

jed talks about the foreseeable future and how little there is that we can foresee.

That's okay, you told me. I like them better when they're dried up. I'll keep them for years. Until our Get Rid of the Roses anniversary.