“We all collide.”

“we all collide”

“we all collide. It made him think of Newton’s third law of motion:for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. It was like, whenyou collided with someone, they would not be in the same position as theyused to be. Everyone equally affected one another.”

“Anachronism is not the inconsequential juxtaposition of epochs, but rather their inter-penetration, like the telescoping legs of a tripod, a series of tapering structures. Since it's quite far from one end to the other they can be opened out like an accordion; but they can also be stacked inside one another like Russian dolls, where the walls around time periods are extremely close to one another. The people of other centuries hear our phonographs blaring, and through the walls of time we see them raising their hands towards the deliciously prepared meal.”

“Know this, Hazard,” he edged out, ignoringHazard’s enthusiastic glare. “I’ll kick your ass if you piss me off any more.” Jesse paused, as ifimagining the scene, then added with childish spite, “Oh, and I’ll laugh too.”“Give me a cigarette burn while you’re at it?”“Just shut up. Your attempt at sarcasm makes me want to barf.”“Good, I’m glad.”

“Despair, or folly?’ said Gandalf. ‘It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. It is wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope. Well, let folly be our cloak, a veil before the eyes of the Enemy!”

“I wish every day could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks.”