Laini Taylor Quotes

If time travel were possible, you still wouldn't be able to change the past - it's already happened!

Life is full of little surprises. Time travel is full of big ones.

There is no PAST anybody can get to, to alter things or even to know what those things were but there is definitely a future, we are already in it.

Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has passed and the first of what will come, but is more--let me see--more like a single point plucked on a single strand of a vast spider web of winds, setting the whole scene atingle. That way; it overlaps ... as prehistoric ferns grow from bathtub planters.

Once upon a time is now.

She'd have to propel herself into the future by whatever means possible or she'd be trapped forever in a place whose times had already passed.

The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.

You can never figure out what the future sounds like. As soon as you make it, it's the past.

That was in the past - we're in the future now.

Tomorrow is your future's yesterday.

Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.

Every second that passes is like a door that opens to allow in what has not yet happened, what we call the future, but, to challenge the contradictory nature of what we have just said, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the future is just an immense void, that the future is just the time on which the eternal present feeds.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.

The present has its élan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one remembers that this unknown was once part of its nature.

The images of his infinite pasts and infinite futures washed over him as he waited, paralyzed, in the present.

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

If I have the chance to time travel, might as well go all out.

The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future.