“She was the clock, a clock that had lost its key, unwinding in the dark.”
“You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.”
“In the Land of Memory the time is always Now.In the Kingdom of Ago, the clocks tick... but their hands never move.There is an Unfound Door(O lost)and memory is the key which opens it.”
“If it was a time bomb, then what she had done that day was started the clock.”
“The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.”
“The railway was part scalpel, part movie camera, slicing the city open, parading its inner workings at fifty frames per second. It was on the S-Bahn that she felt least abandoned, as if the act of travelling turned back the clock, and brought her nearer to the future she had lost.”