“No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.”

“Another busy day! So let’s to business. The clock moves forward; wasted time is life defeated!”

“The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.”

“Even now, not a day goes by when I don't wish I could turn back the clock and change what happened.”

“Watch the grown ups all twirling with the clock throughout the day. Watch them spinning through the hours while the time hands tick away. They talk and grip the world, as they would catch a falling knife. Reality deceives them ’neath amusing games of life.”

“Silence fell. The clock on my mantel ticked aloud and the wind outside flowed past like a river.”

“He would look so young. They were both so young. Tessa knew it was unusual to marry at seventeen and eighteen, but they were racing a clock.
The clock of Jem's life, before it wound down.”

“Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”

“A broken clock is right two times a day.”

“We lived more by the sun than by the clock, but I did own a clock. It was an eight-day windup console clock which I kept on the mantel in the living room, and it was the only timepiece in the house that worked anymore.”