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“I am married but I've yet to meet my wife, and she is dead. Such is the life of a time-traveler... complicated, that is.”
“I suppose that someday, suddenly, I will be transferred to another age, for example the chivalric or the bronze. The hope is, of course, that I arrive in period dress but not resemble a contemporar...”
“Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"He stared at me, baffled. "Why the fuck would you do that?”
“The past is obdurate.”
“He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances.”
“You're from the future, Mr Netherton?""Not exactly," he said. "I'm in the future that would result from my not being here. But since I am, it isn't your future. Here.”
“That's the thing about time travel — you're always moving forward, even when you go back.”
“It was dizzying—cause and effect, round and round, stretching back to the source.”
“It is easy to time-travel, the physicist says—we do it every day. Travelling backward is the problem.”
“I do not like think of them as dead, just alive in another time, they are alive in that time just as we are in this time."- Rose”
“I have no hankerin’ for thrills if needs be sought in the heavens. I shall keep my feet firmly planted in contentment.”
“The past is obdurate.― Stephen King, 11/22/63”
“I just hope we don’t cause a major paradox.”
“I was in '78 recently," he announced. "I brought you this."He handed me a single by the Beatles. I didn't recognize the title."Didn't they split in '70?""Not always. How are things?”
