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The Map of Time QUOTES

The Map of Time QUOTES

1 " [A] writer’s most powerful weapon, his true strength, was his intuition, and regardless of whether he had any talent, if the critics combined to discredit an author’s nose for things, he would be reduced to a fearful creature who took a mistakenly guarded, absurdly cautious approach to his work, which would end up stifling his latent genius. "

― Félix J. Palma , The Map of Time

2 " There is little more I can add short of dissecting the man, or going into intimate details such as the modest proportions and slight southeasterly curvature of his manhood. "

― Félix J. Palma , The Map of Time

3 " Yes, he would look for her, whether to delight in the joys of spring together or to plunge into the abyss. He would look for her because he loved her. And somehow this would lessen the lie Claire was living. For, in the end, the girl's love was reciprocated, and Tom's love, like Shackleton's, was also unattainable, lost in the ether, unable to its way to her. "

― Félix J. Palma , The Map of Time

4 " Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet? "

― Félix J. Palma , The Map of Time

5 " ...the wrath of God pales beside that of man. "

― Félix J. Palma , The Map of Time

6 " And hearing her breathe softly by his side, Wells understood that, as so often happened, his wife knew what he wanted so much better than he did, and that if only he had asked her, he could have saved all that time he taken coming to a decision which, in addition, now proved to be the wrong one. Yes, he told himself, sometimes the best way to find out what we want is to choose what we do not want. "

― Félix J. Palma , The Map of Time

7 " Merrick belonged to that class of reader who was able to forget with amazing ease the hand moving the characters behind the scenes of the novel. "

― Félix J. Palma , The Map of Time

8 " Perhaps you would have preferred it if I had not written you any letter. Perhaps you would have liked it better if I had let you meet your fate unprepared. After all, what awaits you is not all that bad and even contains moments of happiness, as you have seen. But if I wrote to you, it is because somehow I feel this is not the life you should live. Indeed, perhaps you should stay in the past, living happily with Jane and turning me into a successful writer who knows nothing about journeys through time, not real ones anyway. For me it is too late, of course, I cannot choose a different life, but you can. You can still choose between your life and the life I have just recounted to you, between going on being Bertie or becoming me. In the end, that is what time travel gives us, a second chance, the opportunity to go back and do things differently. "

― Félix J. Palma , The Map of Time

9 " Because between doing something and doing nothing, this is all I can do. "

― Félix J. Palma , The Map of Time

10 " And so everything depends on you, Bertie. Bishop or rook. Your life or mine. Do what you believe you have to do. "

― Félix J. Palma , The Map of Time

11 " ...but there are stories that cannot begin at their beginning, and perhaps this is one of them. "

― Félix J. Palma , The Map of Time

12 " Before cruelly vilifying them from a great height, the mudslingers at newspapers and journals should bear in mind that all artistic endeavors were by and large a mixture of effort and imagination, the embodiment of a solitary endeavor, of a sometimes long-nurtured dream, when they were not a desperate bid to give life meaning. "

― Félix J. Palma , The Map of Time

13 " For the very first time Andrew realized that life, real life, had no connection with the way people spent their days, whose lips they kissed, what medals were pinned on them, or the shoes they mended. Life, real life went on soundlessly...ultimately there was no difference between Queen Victoria and the most wretched beggar in London: both were complex machines made up of bone, organ, and tissue, whose fuel was the breath of God. "

― Félix J. Palma , The Map of Time

14 " Time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore. "

― Félix J. Palma , The Map of Time

15 " If Wells recognized any merit in [Henry] James, it was his undeniable talent for using very long sentences in order to say nothing at all. p. 516 "

― Félix J. Palma , The Map of Time

16 " (...) ¿qué era el tiempo si nadie podía medirlo, si nada podía acusar su paso? El tiempo solo se mostraba en las hojas secas, en las heridas que cicatrizaban, en la carcoma que devoraba, en el óxido que se extendía, y en los corazones que se cansaban. Si nadie estaba allí para señalarlo, el tiempo no era nada, absolutamente nada. "

― Félix J. Palma , The Map of Time

17 " He had learned from experience that what he succeeded in putting down on paper was only ever a pale reflection of what he had imagined, and so he had come to accept that this would only be half as good as the original, half as acceptable as the flawless, unachievable novel that had acted as a guide, and which he imagined pulsating mockingly behind each book like some ghostly presence. "

― Félix J. Palma , The Map of Time

18 " Striving to achieve a dream is never a waste of time. "

― Félix J. Palma , The Map of Time

19 " We are the authors of our own fate-we write it each day with every one of our actions. "

― Félix J. Palma , The Map of Time

20 " Time could only be seen in the falling leaves, a wound that healed, a woodworm's tunneling, rust that spread, and hearts that grew weary. Without anyone to discern it, time was nothing, nothing at all. "

― Félix J. Palma , The Map of Time