First-lines Quote by Greg Nagan

“I'd been feeling like this for a while, the continual looking back, the stuckness of it all. I blamed it on the coming New…

— Sarah Winman

“The clocks had struck their dreadful purpose and the time now brought all circumstances into the circle.”

— Don Bradley

“This was her special time, this early part of the day when the sun was just about to creep over the horizon. It was…

— Fern Michaels

“I spent the next three hours in classrooms, trying not to look at the clocks over various blackboards, and then looking at the clocks,…

— John Green

“The voice clock mourned out the cold hour of a cold morning of a still colder year.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Winter. No one likes winter.” “It gets dark early, I like that.” “Why?” Because that means the day has ended. I like checking days…

— Gillian Flynn

“It was the very nature of summer. So many long, lazy days when blissfully, nothing changes, and then everything does, all at once.”

— Sarah Dessen

“It was only sometimes, when a spring day came in the middle of winter, that one had a sudden feeling that nothing was really…

— Barbara Pym

“I looked at all the people, feeling sorry for them. They were still subordinate to clock and calendar. Absolved of that, I stood becalmed.”

— Richard Matheson

“Nothing else mattered today. I lived within the minutes I was in—not dwelling on the past, or fearing the future. I just let the…

— Rebecca Donovan

“There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling, I had to believe whatever clocks said—and calendars.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“That was the day without a dawn.”

— George R.R. Martin