“I have already told you of the sickness and confusion that comes with time travelling.”

Jackpot trilogy, The Peripheral (2014)
Source: Epigraph, taken from H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, chapter 11.

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American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist and founder … 1948

Patricia Briggs book Silver Borne

Source: Silver Borne

“Written on her tombstone: "I told you I was sick.”

Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…

“Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you – as if you haven't been told a million times ALREADY – that writing is harder. Lonelier. And nobler and more enriching.”

Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) American writer

As quoted in Quit Your Day Job!: How to Sleep Late, Do What You Enjoy, and Make a Ton of ... (2004) by James D. Denney, p. 124 https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1884956041

“But, come to think of it, there was no need to wait. Time travelers don’t have to wait for anybody.”

Jack McDevitt book Time Travelers Never Die

Source: Time Travelers Never Die (2009), Chapter 5 (p. 50)

“You can’t keep messing me around like this. It’s been going on too long. I can’t take it anymore. I get sick every time you come around. Then I get sick when you leave. You’re like a disease to me.”

Sam Shepard Fool for Love

Source: Fool for Love

“This morning Jackson had told Matthew, "You mention death one more time, and I"ll knock you into next week.?"
"Already been there," Matthew had answered.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Poison Princess

“Why should you be confused just because you come from a confused civilization?”

Brian W. Aldiss (1925–2017) British science fiction author

“Poor Little Warrior!” p. 78 (originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1958)
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)