#tim

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#time #time

Don't." Clary raised a warning hand. "I'm not really in the mood right now." "That's got to be the first time a girl's ever said that to me," Jace mused. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-wayland #time

Is standing by the window muttering about blood something he does all the time?" asked Simon. "No," Jace said. "Sometimes he sits on the couch and does it. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#simon #time

You know," Gabriel said, "there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will." "There was a time I thought I was a ferret," Will said, "but that turned out to be the opium haze. Did you know it had that effect? Because I didn't. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

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She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#time

For you, a thousand times over ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

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Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#feelings #reading #thoughts #time

One more time? For the audience?" he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Already the boy with the bread is slipping away from me. I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#dread #go #hollow #katniss #let

Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory. ↗

— Betty Smith

#wonder #time

Tonight’s December thirty-first, Something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, Like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year! ↗

— Ogden Nash

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