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• The only time people turned to watch her go by was when she hurtled past them as she fell.

  Cassandra Clare

  Past, People, Watches

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• As ever, the original inhabitants of Turtle Island are entirely overlooked. Mysteriously, the only time indigenous people are guaranteed a mainstream Amerikkan mention is on Thanksgiving. Again, to contextualize, this would be be kinda like someone busting into your house and robbing you blind, then sending you postcards once a year to remind you how much they are enjoying all of your stuff, and getting annoyed with you if you don't respond with appreciation for their thoughtfulness.

  Inga Muscio

  Appreciation, Islands, Turtles

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• The only time I can ever remember Steven crying over any of it was after my treatment, when I tried to use my foot on his bass drum pedal, and we realized I could never play a drum set.

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Play, Feet, Use

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2012). “After Ever After”, p.18, Scholastic Inc.

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• No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.

  Guy Finley

  Real, Firsts, Facts

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• Of all the islands he'd visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past time and the inhabitants were bored and more or less happy, but where the weight of illusion was so great that the island sank a little deeper into the river every day. And the island of the future, where the only time was the future, and the inhabitants were planners and strivers, such strivers, said Ulises, that they were likely to end up devouring one another.

  Roberto Bolano

  Past, Two, Rivers

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• Morgan sighed. "I," she announced, "am so pathetic." "You are not," I said. "I am." She went over and straightened the cling wrap, corner to corner. "Do you know how many times I've brought in devilled eggs? This is, like, the only time I haven't been sobbing and that's only 'cause I cried all night. And Norman," she said, her voice rising to a wail, "sweet Norman, always just acts so surprised to see the eggs, and pleased, and he never, once, has ever acted like he knew what they meant."

  Sarah Dessen

  Sweet, Night, Eggs

  "Keeping the Moon". Book by Sarah Dessen, September 1, 1999.

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• She heard him mutter, 'Can you take away this grief?' 'I'm sorry,' she replied. 'Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sorry, Grief, Bereavement

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• With Marguerite, he wanted only time—more and more time—and he was granted it, nighttimes and daytimes and nighttimes again.

  Mitch Albom

  Granted, More Time, Wanted

  Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.101, Hachette UK

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• It seems like suffering's the only time we can see what's essential. If peace ever comes back I'm making a vow: I'll design myself special glasses. They'll block out whether people are fat or thin or beautiful or weird-looking, whether they have pimples or birthmarks or different coloured skin. They'll do everything suffering's done for us, but without the pain. I'm going to wear those glasses for the rest of my life.

  John Marsden

  Beautiful, Pain, Block

  John Marsden (2013). “The Night is for Hunting”, p.150, Hachette UK

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• If only,’ Shiroyama dreams, ‘human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and intersections. If only time was a sequence of considered moves and not a chaos of slippages and blunders.

  David Mitchell

  Dream, Moving, Boards

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• The one and only time an archangel can Make another angel is when our bodies produce a substance known as ambrosia. Ambrosia,is produced instinctively at a single point in an archangel’s life. It is legend that ambrosia only rises when an archangel loves true.

  Nalini Singh

  Angel, Substance, Body

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.252, Penguin

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• Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is.

  Robin Hobb

  Thinking, Done, Eternal

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Royal Assassin: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.647, Spectra

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• Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?

  Mary Balogh

  Past, Motive, Prove

  Mary Balogh (2007). “The Devil's Web”, p.153, Dell

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• Self-deceit—It’s in the “Nine Satanic Statements” but deserves to be repeated here. Another cardinal sin. We must not pay homage to any of the sacred cows presented to us, including the roles we are expected to play ourselves. The only time self-deceit should be entered into is when it’s fun, and with awareness. But then, it’s not self-deceit!

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Fun, Self, Play

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• Only times and places, only names and ghosts.

  Aldous Huxley

  Names, Ghost

  Aldous Huxley (1931). “The cicadas and other poems”

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• She had forgotten them all; forgotten Richard down in the mud, and the marquis and his foolish crossbow, and the world. She was delighted and transported, in a perfect place, the world she lived for. Her world contained two things: Hunter, and the Beast. The Beast knew that too. It was the perfect match, the hunter and the hunted. And who was who, and which was which, only time would reveal; time and the dance.

  Neil Gaiman

  Two, Perfect, Hunters

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• Remember that there is only one important time and it is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person with whom you are, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future? The most important pursuit is making that person, the one standing at you side, happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Important, Dominion, Sides

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• For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Heart, Brain, Glimpse

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2011). “The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes”, p.140, House of Stratus

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• There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Men, Evil, Good Man

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke: History Lesson”, p.181, RosettaBooks

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• If nothing else, now we knew where to find each other, even if only time would tell if either of us would ever come looking.

  Sarah Dessen

  Ifs

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.282, Penguin

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• Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time.

  Joan Didion

  Memories, Denial

  Joan Didion (2007). “The Year of Magical Thinking”, p.197, Vintage

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• There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Wrong Time, Meant To Be

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• In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded beyond detection. Indeed, they will be receding faster than the speed of light, so detection will be impossible. Future civilizations will discover science and all its laws, and never know about other galaxies or the cosmic background radiation. They will inevitably come to the wrong conclusion about the universe......We live in a special time, the only time, where we can observationally verify that we live in a special time.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Light, Years, Law

  YouTube Channel "Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science"/"'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009", www.youtube.com. October 21, 2009.

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• I always loved twilight: it was the only time of day I had the feeling that something important could happen. All things were more beautiful bathed in twilight, all streets, all squares, and all the people walking through them; I even had the feeling that I was a handsome young man, and I liked looking at myself in the mirror, watching myself in the shop windows as I strode along, and even when I touched my face, I felt no wrinkles at my mouth or forehead.

  Bohumil Hrabal

  Beautiful, Twilight, Men

  Bohumil Hrabal (1992). “Too Loud a Solitude”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self, and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help and patience, and a certain difficult repentance long difficult repentance, realization of life’s mistake, and the freeing oneself from the endless repetition of the mistake which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mistake, Emotional, Self

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.160, ReadHowYouWant.com

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