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1 " It is a subliminal thing. It is the tick of a clock that has ticked so long one no longer notices. Something is in a room when a man lives in it. Something is not in the room when a man is dead in it. "
― Ray Bradbury , A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories
2 " I can hear the tick tick tick in my head: A tripwire ready to explode in fury. And then, in my mind, I start to count down from ten…any moment now. "
― Danielle Esplin , Give It Back
3 " The devil?” Jason heaved the tick over his shoulder like a collier with his sack. “Satan. The adversary. The enemy of the plan of God. The undoer. The destroyer. Yes. He definitely was.” Jason smiled. “But he meant well. "
― Orson Scott Card , The Worthing Saga (Worthing, #1-3)
