Frozen Time

Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.

But I’ll restore mankind somehow! I’ll find a way! I swear it!

I don’t want some other girl! I want Nancy! If only I could stop time!

Stella: So you can see into the future? All these years you never told me. Think of all the trouble I might have avoided.

Akton: You would have tried to change the future, which is against the law.

I’m from the future and the past and other temporalities that you can’t comprehend. But all you need to know is that yiou must not write this Hemingway story. If you do, I or someone like me will have to kill you.

The large clock appeared to be broken, its second hand stopped at thirteen seconds past the hour.

Zak: My dad consults on these super-secret projects, and I think this is one of them.
Francesca: So your watch stops time?

Proctor: You’re lucky, Nick. You have skills that we want, so we’re giving you a choice: You can take your chances with judgement, or . . . [fishes undeader gun from a drawer and places it on the desk]/actor] you can join the R.I.P.D.

He clutched his blankets, waiting for the inevitable.

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The dusty mantle clock hadn’t peeped since Aunt Beryl . . .

As far as I could tell, I was the last person left alive. I never figured out what killed the human race. I did find something else: the date it happens. . . . The world ends in eight days, and I have no idea how to stop it.

Anything entering her horizon no longer experienced the passage of time.

Time will take us away from what we love, who we love, and Time will take us, finally, from ourselves.

I don’t have the luxury of sitting up here and judging everybody like some kind of cosmic social worker.

And this kind of uncontrolled reaction we’re having right here, two strong time-stopping powers together—if we keep kissing, we won’t just create creepy frozen mannequins out of everyone around us. And I shouldn’t have used the word ripples, either, because we won’t create mere ripples, Essie. We’ll create tsunamis. People will lose time, gain time, grow older, grow younger . . . timelines will get all mixed up. The past and the present will collide. It’ll be . . . messy.

And I would tell you that you need to be careful when you go back in time—make sure you don’t change a thing, no matter how tempting that might be.

‘You know if I could stop what happened to Vince, I would,’ I told her. ‘But Time Witches can’t really change things without bringing a crapstorm down on their heads. If I thought there wouldn’t be consequences, I’d do it in a heartbeat.’

‘You know if I could stop what happened to Vince, I would,’ I told her. ‘But Time Witches can’t really change things without bringing a crapstorm down on their heads. If I thought there wouldn’t be consequences, I’d do it in a heartbeat.’

[. . .] it can be kind of mind-blowing and a little bit nauseating to jump through time, so trying to hold an invisibility spell of your own at the same time could be hard. Hey.’ She gave me a quick hug. ‘Don’t worry, okay? If Bill and Ted can handle time travel, then so can we.’