“The noiseless wheels of my carrush with a crackling sound overdried leaves as I bow and pass smiling.”
“More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes. It must pass....”
“I tip my hat to the new constitution, I take a bow for the new revolution, smile and grin at the change all around me.”
“A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind serene and dutiful towards her again, he was made aware dimly and without regret of a first noiseless sundering of their lives.”
“If you pass out, I'll put you in my lap and wheel you across the finish line”
“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.”