“When you’ve heard one bagpipe tune you’ve heard them both.”
Jack Finney book From Time to Time
Source: From Time to Time (1995), Chapter 28 (p. 285)
Quotes from bookFrom Time to Time
Ruben Prien is still at work with the Project, still dreaming of altering man's fate by going back in time to adjust events... to interfere, some might say, with destiny. Once again, his conduit to that bygone era, his messenger to that lost world, is Simon Morley, the man who actually proved himself capable of traveling back and forth in time. Rube's purpose in summoning Si back from that earlier world, where he has taken up permanent residence, is no less grand than an attempt to prevent World War I from erupting. It is ironic, therefore, that the man assigned to carry to America the papers that might help avert the Great Catastrophe travels to his meeting on board the Titanic. And it is Si's task to attempt to ensure his safe passage.
“The best thing in our show was always our move to the next town.”
Jack Finney book From Time to Time
Source: From Time to Time (1995), Chapter 21 (p. 233)
“I had the evening to kill, but it didn’t want to die and fought back.”
Jack Finney book From Time to Time
Source: From Time to Time (1995), Chapter 20 (p. 212)
“They couldn’t promise that, could they?”
Jack Finney book From Time to Time
Source: From Time to Time (1995), Chapter 11 (p. 112)
Context: “Of course not. Congress would have to declare war; this was back in the old-fashioned days when Presidents felt they had to honor their oath to abide by the Constitution.”
Jack Finney book From Time to Time
Source: From Time to Time (1995), Chapter 4 (p. 58)
Context: I hate that word. You know who uses it mostly? Time patriots. Same people who live in the best country in the world. Must be the best because that’s where they live. And they live in the best of times; has to be best because it’s their lifetime. You even suggest there just might have been better times than here and now, and it’s ‘nostalgia, nostalgia.’ Don’t even know what the word means. Means overly sentimental, for crysakes.
Jack Finney book From Time to Time
Source: From Time to Time (1995), Chapter 1 (p. 38)
