"August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time."
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"August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time."
"August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages."
"The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke down. The day progressed in an endless sequence of dead moments."
"The mosquitos were gone from the porch, and surely when they abandoned the conflict the war with Time was really done, there was nothing for it but that humans also forsake the battleground."
"We were enjoying one of those rare summers of utter freedom – no financial responsibility, no debts, no time owing to anybody."
"The ticking seconds pulled me toward the end. It was cold when he no longer held me. It got colder every step I took away from him. Just my imagination, of course. It was still summer here. It would always be summer here for me."
"I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are."
"We might not win today" But Time is our best friend, HE will catch up with you and drag you down... Vengeance will be ours"
"Then he took the pages, smoothed them with the palm of his hand, and fixed them with pins to the walls. So that now, if he sat looking down upon Grape Street, the letters and images encircled him. And it was while he sat here, scarcely moving, that he was in hell and no one knew it. At such times the future became so clear that it was as if he were remembering it, remembering it in place of the past which he could no longer describe. But there was in any case no future and no past, only the unspeakable misery of his own self."
"They lived their lives only for the hour that lay ahead of them."
"...as if the world had become a giant train station in which everything was delayed until further notice."
"Time passed at an accelerated pace. They could be sitting in traffic or talking on the phone or waiting in line for a movie, and their time felt precious, important, worthwhile."
"Sometimes the planning and the work is not the most difficult aspect of an endeavor; it’s the waiting—waiting to see if the preparation, the implementation, and the bait, will land a catch—waiting, that time in between the effort and the result, the source of so much hope, frustration, doubt, anxiety, and perhaps, disenchantment. It can try those with even the firmest resolve."
"We spend most of our lives doing nothing but waiting. Waiting things that always change."
"To forget would mean the things we never knew had never waited to be known, never waitedto be forgotten, had never been; waitingbeneath the long dead starsin time. . ."
"Sometimes you wait for the right time and you run out of time altogether."
"The thing about waiting is that the longer you wait, the more impatient you become."
"The beauty of the unexpected lies within the surprise of the momentum,not only at its tipping point, but also within all the moments waiting."
"That was the real bitch about time: Everything true would become false, if only you waited long enough."
"Waiting never makes things easier or less troublesome."
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