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c88f3fe I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem. romance scotland time-travel historical-fiction Diana Gabaldon
ba1aeb7 I am charging you with the protection of my mother and friends, not to mention keeping my younger self off the Internet. He is as dangerous as Opal. kids humor time-travel teenagers internet Eoin Colfer
6dc876b "Party lights hang over the street, yellow and red and green. Sadie stumbles over someone's chair, but I'm ready for this and I catch her easily by the arm. "Sorry, clumsy," she says. "You always were, Sadie. One of your more endearing traits." Before she can ask about that I slip my arm around her waist. She slips hers around mine, still looking up at me. The lights skate across her cheeks and shine in her eyes. We clasp hands, fingers folding together naturally, and for me the years fall away like a coat that's too heavy and too tight. In that moment, I hope on thing above all others: that she was not too busy to find at least one good man ... She speaks in a voice almost too low to be heard over the music. But I hear her - I always did. "Who are you, George?" "Someone you knew in another life, honey." time-travel lost-love Stephen King
265e9ae Gentle he would be, denied he would not. time-travel Diana Gabaldon
92d9181 If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never have got beyond the first picosecond. And many of course don't. It's like a human body, you see. A few cuts and bruises here and there don't hurt it. Not even major surgery if it's done properly. Paradoxes are just the scar tissue. Time and space heal themselves up around them and people simply remember a version of events which makes as much sense as they require it to make. time-travel Douglas Adams
89685b6 Shh! Listen! Someone's coming! I think -- I think it might be us! time-turner time-travel J.K. Rowling
7c2347c If you see an antimatter version of yourself running towards you, think twice before embracing. science time-travel J. Richard Gott
5c9fe72 I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space. time-travel Dan Simmons
e207c5b When I was small, I never wanted to step in puddles. Not because of any fear of drowned worms or wet stockings; I was by and large a grubby child, with a blissful disregard for filth of any kind. It was because I couldn't bring myself believe that that perfect smooth expanse was no more than I thin film of water over solid earth. I believed it was an opening into some fathomless space. Sometimes, seeing the tiny ripples caused by my approach, I thought the puddle impossibly deep, a bottomless sea in which the lazy coil of a tentacle and gleam of scale lay hidden, with the threat of huge bodies and sharp teeth adrift and silent in the far-down depths. And then, looking down into reflection, I would see my own round face and frizzled hair against a featureless blue sweep, and think instead that the puddle was the entrance to another sky. If I stepped in there, I would drop at once, and keep on falling, on and on, into blue space. The only time I would dare walk though a puddle was at twilight, when the evening stars came out. If I looked in the water and saw one lighted pinprick there, I could slash through unafraid--for if I should fall into the puddle and on into space, I could grab hold of the star as I passed, and be safe. Even now, when I see a puddle in my path, my mind half-halts--though my feet do not--then hurries on, with only the echo of the though left behind. imagination fantasy time-travel science-fiction Diana Gabaldon
6881650 "Have you ever heard of the theory of relativity?" Artemis blinked. "Is this a joke? I have traveled through time, Doctor. I think I know a little something about relativity." funny artemis-fowl-humor time-travel relativity Eoin Colfer
78bc10a Why couldn't it just not have happened? Why didn't they have time-travel, why couldn't he go back and stop it happening? Ships that could circumnavigate the galaxy in a few years, and count every cell in your body from light-years off, but he wasn't able to go back one miserable day and alter one tiny, stupid, idiotic, shameful decision... stupidity galaxies jernau-morat-gurgeh time-travel mistakes shame regret Iain M. Banks
fa3e855 Come here, cat. You wouldn't want to destroy the space-time continuum, would you? Meow. Meow. funny time-travel Connie Willis
1bd4525 When I am out there, in time, I am inverted, changed into a desperate version of myself. I become a thief, a vagrant, an animal who runs and hides. I startle old women and amaze children. I am a trick, an illusion of the highest order, so incredible that I am actually true. time-travel Audrey Niffenegger
ef72975 Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. If you can bend space you can bend time also, and if you knew enough and could move faster than light you could travel backward in tie and exist in two places at once. time-travel Margaret Atwood
d13c6e4 "So now it's space and time," he said. "You ever watch Doctor Who on PBS?" "All the time," she said dryly, "on the BBC. And don't think I wouldn't sell my soul for a TARDIS." tardis time-travel doctor-who Diana Gabaldon
30a0eaa "Running along the bank was a white rabbit wearing a waistcoat and looking worriedly at a clock. Appearing and disappearing at various points on both banks was a dark blue British police telephone booth, out of which a perplexed-looking man holding a screwdriver would periodically emerge. A group of dwarf bandits could be seen disappearing into a hole in the sky. "Time travelers," said Nobodaddy in a voice of gentle disgust. "They're everywhere these days." doctor time-travel Salman Rushdie
2e7d745 I raise my head and see a red illuminated EXIT sign and as my eyes adjust I see tigers, cavemen with long spears, cavewomen wearing strategically modest skins, wolfish dogs. My heart is racing and for a liquor-addled moment I think until I realize that EXIT signs tend to congregate in the twentieth century. time-travel Audrey Niffenegger
529cfb9 Time is not duration but intensity; time is the beat and the interval [...] time time-travel Ursula K. Le Guin
445a838 "Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if time travel ever became widespread, English grammar was going to have to add a whole new set of tenses to describe reflexive situations - conjugations that would make the French literary tenses and the Latin historical tenses look simple." humor time-travel science-fiction Robert A. Heinlein
8bce8d8 I love you always. Time is nothing. love-story time-travel Audrey Niffenegger
0e20bf5 "You are telling me that I did something because I was going to do something." "Well, didn't you? You were there." "No, I didn't--no... well, maybe I did, but it didn't feel like it." "Why should you expect it to? It was something totally new to your experience." "But... but--" Wilson took a deep breath and got control of himself. Then he reached back into his academic philosophical concepts and produced the notion he had been struggling to express. "It denies all reasonable theories of causation. You would have me believe that causation can be completely circular. I went through because I came back from going through to persuade myself to go through. That's silly." "Well, didn't you?" ~ By His Bootstraps / Robert A. Heinlein" spacetime time-travel John W. Campbell Jr.
c5344f8 In reality, time doesn't pass; we pass. Time itself is invariant. It just is. Therefore, past and future aren't separate locations, the way New York and Paris are separate locations. And since the past isn't a location, you can't travel to it. time science passing-of-time time-travel Michael Crichton
74c5071 "To quote a famous philosopher revered in my time 'But this is no different from regular life. When have you ever known what's going to happen in the future?'" Wait a minute, Jonah thought. I said that. Back at Westminster, with Katherine. Does that mean I'm going to be a famous philosopher in the future? Does that mean I'm going to be revered? There wasn't time to ask." time quote life revered philosopher time-travel Margaret Peterson Haddix
d340e03 Physicists often quote from T. H. White's epic novel , where a society of ants declares, 'Everything not forbidden is compulsory.' In other words, if there isn't a basic principle of physics forbidding time travel, then time travel is necessarily a physical possibility. (The reason for this is the uncertainty principle. Unless something is forbidden, quantum effects and fluctuations will eventually make it possible if we wait long enough. Thus, unless there is a law forbidding it, it will eventually occur.) science heisenberg-uncertainty-principle terence-hanbury-white uncertainty-principle werner-heisenberg t-h-white the-once-and-future-king time-travel physics Michio Kaku
70abc87 I'm not going to stand here and be eaten by some bitch's dinosaur. I am finally doing something with my life. tiffany time-travel Brian K. Vaughan
a149470 He had set up a telescope on a corner of the roof, and we went up to take a look. This is time travel, he said, narrowing an eye to set the lens. Because the light is old. We're seeing back in time. No, we said, wrinkling our noses. We are seeing right now, today. No, he said, the light has to travel to us and it takes millions of years. What you're seeing is time. Excuse me, we said. We were embarrassed to correct him. He seemed so smart. What we're seeing is space. It's space, yes, he said. It's also time. You're seeing what has already happened. time time-travel time-passing Aimee Bender
3f83096 In Einstein's equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers. So, if the river of time can be bent into a pretzel, create whirlpools and fork into two rivers, then time travel cannot be ruled out. time-travel slavery-in-the-united-states Michio Kaku
8a0000f "But I love him. You know it. You can't ask me to just sit back and let Paul do this. If he succeeds I won't even remember having met Jesse." "Right," my dad said reasonably. "So it won't hurt." "It will," I insisted, "It will hurt, Dad. Because deep down I'll know. I'll know there was someone... someone I was supposed to have met. Only I'll never meet him. I'll go through my whole life waiting for him to come along, only he never will. What kind of life is that, Dad, huh? What kind of life is that?" time-travel Meg Cabot
fc85176 In another place was a vast array of idols--Polynesian, Mexican, Grecian, Phoenician, every country on earth I should think. And here, yielding to an irresistible impulse, I wrote my name upon the nose of a steatite monster from South America that particularly took my fancy. museum time-travel H. G. Wells
53d3f08 All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives - all that was over. time-travel H.G. Wells
c258e05 ...is any history really all that ancient?...Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present? time-travel Margaret Peterson Haddix
b1e8f12 Is deja vu actually the specter of false timelines that never happened but did, casting their shadows upon reality? time memories reality science-fictionce timelines time-travel Blake Crouch
3323c78 You are not one person. You are a different person in each moment in time. Your name means nothing. Go see a person with the same name in a different time, and it's someone else entirely. time-travel Beth Revis
ecf1a8e If we do not laugh, we will cry. Crying will only make us hotter and sweatier. We Jews like to joke about death because what you laugh at and make familiar can no longer frighten you. Besides, Chayaleh, what else is there to do? time-travel wwii holocaust Jane Yolen
c65d24c "There is no time. All things exist simultaneously. All events occur at once. This Book is being written, and as it's being written it's already written; it already exists. In fact, that's where you're getting all this information - from the book that already exists. You're merely bringing it into form. This is what is meant by: "Even before you ask, I will have answered." [...] Time is experienced as a movement, a flow, rather than a constant. It is who are moving, not time. Time has no movement. There is only One Moment. [...] time non-linear-life understanding-time power-of-now time-travel time-passing present-moment Neale Donald Walsch
13d22c8 In the rest room next door there was a long, explosive sound of gas releasing, then a contented 'Ahhh.' Grace clapped a hand over her mouth to hold back the hysterical giggle that rose in her throat. She had to finish before he did, or he might hear her. The competition was the strangest in which she'd ever engaged. time-travel paranormal-romance Linda Howard
c6a5e63 It would be convenient if one could redesign the past, change a few things here and there, like certain acts of outrageous stupidity, but if one could do that, the past would always be in motion. It would never settle down finally to days of solid marble. time-travel regret Richard Brautigan
abc92fd Inogda luchshe vse ostavit' kak est'. Vremia - ne prialka. Vremia - priazha. time time-travel Ben Elton
9d44d0a The sun was already long past the spire when Garrick purchased a mug of coffee from his regular man on the tip of Oxford Street. But his palate had been educated by 21st century coffee, and he judged this mug as bilge water not fit for the Irish. time-travel Eoin Colfer
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