Margaret Atwood Quotes About Time
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The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.
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Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float.
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Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. If you can bend space you can bend time also, and if you knew enough and could move faster than light you could travel backwards in time and exist in two places at once.
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You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.
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Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.
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Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water.
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