Time Quote by Joanne Harris

“I knew that on that island one was driven back into the past. There was so much space, so much silence, so few meetings…

— John Fowles

“I learned that, to survive, it was best to live in the present. On this island, there was no past or future. Your destiny…

— Armando Lucas Correa

“The night felt like it had gone by so fast, yet every second of it was bright and burned into my mind, and I…

— Kevin Emerson

“Back there in the beginning, as I see now, my life was all time and almost no memory. Though I knew early of death,…

— Wendell Berry

“You spend long moments worrying and wondering only to see the wash up on the shore of a sea of wasted hours. Only to…

— Travis Thrasher

“Everyone has a past, she reminded herself. If only she could have a good one. One that was exciting and involved pirates or space…

— Susan Mallery

“Focusing on the past is only a barricade to the future. Once you overcome that barricade, the possibilities are endless.”

— Brandon Cella

“Time was moving backward, it seemed, and the future was mostly forgotten.”

— Ann Brashares

“But when a place has been an island the memory of water lingers, and of water magic, no matter how far away the sea…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“In other words, time was a kind of palimpsest, traces of the past peeking through the present, only to be written over in the…

— Melissa de la Cruz

“He remembers those vanished years. As though looking through a dusty window pane, the past is something he could see, but not touch. And…

— Wong Kar-Wai

“He had to find the boy before nightfall. The island was no place for an old man, but once dark fell, things could get…

— Brit Malorie