Quotes About Time

It's like we're on a high-speed train that's going somewhere fast, and I like it, I do, but I also like a slow train where I can look out the window and appreciate the countryside, the buildings, the mountains. It's like I don't want to miss the little steps; I want it to last. And then the next second I want to grow up faster, more, now. To be as ready as everyone else is. How is everyone else so ready?

Ögonblick som avgör allt, även om man kanske inte förstår det då.

If they don't talk now, the scar will only harden over time, it will calcify, and then they'll be like strangers who never loved each other, which is the saddest thought of all.

You can't judge who you love the most by how long you love them.

Well, get into a new one. Life is short." For once, Alicia and Stormy are on the same page.

It was like something out of a movie. It feels like a long time ago now.

It would do no good to wonder what he was going to say. Moments, when lost, can't be found again. They're just gone.

as we are today, that part is done. We'll never be here exactly like this again.

In my head you're still the same age you were when I left.

When someone's been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them. You try to keep track of everything in your head. But it's like trying to hold on to a fistful of sand: all the little bits slip out of your hands, and then you're just clutching air and grit. That's why you can't save it all up like that.

Au début, quand un proche s'absente longtemps, on pense constamment à ce qu'on va lui raconter. On tâche de tout garder en mémoire. Mais autant essayer de retenir une poignée de sable : tous les grains finissent par s'échapper et il ne reste plus que de la terre et du vide, on ne peut jamais tout retenir. Résultat, quand on se revoit, on ne discute que de sujets sérieux. Les anecdotes sont impossibles à partager.

What we had was perfect, and it was finite in the way that all good things are. Nothing gold can stay. I take off the necklace Reeve gave me and then I cry until the sun comes up. For what could have been and what will never be.

As pessoas entram e saem da nossa vida. Durante uma época, são seu mundo; são tudo. E, um dia, não são mais. Não dá para saber por quanto tempo vamos tê-las por perto.

I'm lucky to have had her for as long as I did.

People come in and out of your life. For a time they are your world; they are everything. And then one day they're not. There's no telling how long you will have them near. -Lara Jean Song Covey, P.S. I Still Love You

Gli attimi, una volta persi, non si ritrovano più. Sono persi per sempre.

I hated it when he played the guitar. He'd sit there, strumming, halfway paying attention, only halfway present. He'd hum to himself, and he was someplace else. We'd be watching TV, or playing cards, and he'd be strumming the guitar. Or he'd be in his room, practicing. For what, I didn't know. All I knew was that it took time away from us.

Which is why it's so weird to be sitting next to him on somebody's curb like no time has passed.

Just one look across a bathroom fish tank was all it took? They knew it was a love worth dying for? Because they do not know. They believe. I guess the difference is, in those times people got married so much younger than they do now. Realistically, till death do us part probably only meant, like, fifteen or twenty years, because people didn't live as long back then.

We've already taken a hundred pictures today, and we'll take hundreds more, but I know this one will be my favorite.

My whole life was measured in summers.

It feels like forever ago, but really it was just four years.

Moments, when lost, can't be found

Los momentos, una vez perdidos, no pueden recuperarse. Simplemente desaparecen.