Burning-falls Quote by Laura Kreitzer

“The rest of the time, all she knew was that he was a time bomb, primed and ticking.”

— Kit Rocha

“If it was a time bomb, then what she had done that day was started the clock.”

— Neal Shusterman

“When they confronted her like this, she felt like a delicate freaking time bomb just waiting for a time and a place to explode.”

— Missy Lyons

“The time for change had come, and it wasn’t until that moment that the Lady remembered, even answers had their own clock.”

— Erin Cole (The Dead River

“One thing was certain: Human Time was the saddest, maddest, most devastating variety of time that had ever existed. She tried her best to…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“I reckon it was always going to happen, one way or another. She wasn't made right for this world. She'd been running away from…

— Tana French

“When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as a…

— Murray Kempton

“... She was a clock, I could tell by the ticking in her wrist. (I'd secretly slipped my thumb down, to feel her pulse…

— Elizabeth McCracken

“And she was supposed to be its leader. The knowledge settled over her like a soft blanket woven of fate. It was always going…

— Kekla Magoon

“..it just seemed as if she were marking time while life rocketed past.”

— Soheir Khashoggi

“When neither Tick nor anyone else made a move, Jane stopped. Her body stiffened, and some kind of unspoken warning seemed to flow from…

— James Dashner

“In the last few months, she'd had a lot of time to consider the state of mankind, and she'd decided that people actually had…

— Alice Hoffman