Suzanne Collins Quotes

I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie

Time needs another minute.

It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could'st make the time to do so too; I'll wind thee up no more.

A year shall I endure for every day that passes until your return.

The bell that measures time is ringing

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.

Don't be so foolish as to ask for more time: calamities will not wait.

It had a very long pendulum, and the pendulum swung with a slow tick-tock that set his teeth on edge, because it was the the kind of delibrate, annoying ticking that wanted to make it abundantly clear that every tick and every tock was stripping another second off your life.

It's not five minutes to midnight. It's five minutes after midnight.

All I get is tomorrow.

Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.

Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.

A Clock is not time; it's numbers and springs. Pay it no mind.

Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me.

The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared its throat and struck six times.

Hurry up: your dreams are waiting for you, but they will not wait forever

Hahnji, mister, you must be patient. Before you can name that corner, our future must become past.

I wanted to wake you straightaway, but I knew I had to wait several hours to ensure you were safely recovered." "What! How long has it been?" "Five minutes. I got bored.

I hope it won't take long.

Even speed, when we are anxious, seems like delay.

For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.

Time and tide and hookers wait for no man.

Delay is a bitter tonic, but it increases appetite.

You don't get everything all at once. You wait.