“Time passes. That's for sure.”
“I rolled my eyes. "I'm sure I'll hold out until Halloween.""That's already passed.""Exactly," I muttered”
“At first Nick was able to divide this fantasy from reality, but as time passed, he became more sure that the fantasy was reality.”
“For time to pass it would have to go somewhere, and where would that be? Time sits. We move, it sits. Sometimes it trembles slightly, but that's all.”
“Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.”
“That's all it was, the dream was just Jock and me and the stick and the beach and the sea and the sky and time passing by, and that was all, there was nothing else. And that was happiness.”