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“If you post your used concert tickets on Craigslist and someone actually buys them, you know you’ve found yourself a time traveler.”
― Nathan Van Coops, In Times Like These

“What happened, happened. You can never change the past. Not really. You can just choose to live in a time where things are different.”
― Nathan Van Coops, In Times Like These

“People say, 'Time heals all wounds.' That may be true, but relocating to an alternate reality can sure help too." -Excerpt from the journal of Dr. Harold Quickly, 1941”
― Nathan Van Coops, In Times Like These

“If you meet experienced time travelers, you can usually trust that they are intelligent. The nature of this business rapidly weeds out the morons.” -Excerpt from the journal of Dr. Harold Quickly, 2110.   I”
― Nathan Van Coops, In Times Like These

“It doesn’t pay to insult another time traveler. In fact you should make it a rule of thumb to never anger anyone today, who can go back and stab you yesterday.” -Excerpt from the journal of Dr. Harold Quickly, 2008   I’m”
― Nathan Van Coops, In Times Like These

“A time traveler’s clock ticks no slower than anyone else’s. Guard your minutes and seconds closer than your dollars and cents. You can predict when you’ll be out of money, but not when you’ll be out of time.” -Excerpt from the journal of Dr. Harold Quickly, 1986   Flames”
― Nathan Van Coops, In Times Like These

“Gravitites are particles that exist free of time. Once they become a part of you, time is forced to release its hold on your destiny. What you do with that freedom is up to you. Try to show some originality. ”–Journal of Dr. Harold Quickly, 1885 Chapter”
― Nathan Van Coops, The Chronothon

“They say timing is everything. I would argue that spacing is a close second. It’s no use showing up right on time, if you fuse your leg through the coffee table.” -Excerpt from the journal of Dr. Harold Quickly, 1989   The”
― Nathan Van Coops, In Times Like These

“If you post your used concert tickets on Craigslist and someone actually buys them, you know you’ve found yourself a time traveler.” -Excerpt from the journal of Dr. Harold Quickly, 2013   “Where”
― Nathan Van Coops, In Times Like These

“One of the sweetest blessings of time travel is getting to see people who have passed away and also meet those not yet born. Treasure those moments, but use them sparingly. There is a reason we learn to let go, and a reason we let live. Sometimes love thrives most in our absence.” –Journal of Dr. Harold Quickly,”
― Nathan Van Coops, The Chronothon

“There is a common misconception that love is without cost. I would argue that we pay for love daily, and the currency it requires is time.” -Journal of Dr. Harold Quickly, 2001”
― Nathan Van Coops, The Warp Clock

“I’m frequently reminded of the scale of time, and that despite my being a time traveler, the earth will spend far more days without my company than with it. That is as it should be. Cosmic insignificance does wonders to keep an ego in check.” -Journal of Dr. Harold Quickly, 2218.”
― Nathan Van Coops, The Warp Clock

“If the purpose of life isn’t learning to love one another better, then I’ve completely misread all of the encounters I’ve had in time. And if I’m wrong, I’ll stay wrong. I’d rather be remembered as a kind-hearted fool than an uncaring genius.” -Journal of Dr. Harold Quickly, 1942”
― Nathan Van Coops, The Warp Clock

“Hurrying through life is like dumping out your ice cream to get to the cone. If that was the point, they’d offer it as a flavor called ‘empty regret.’” -Journal of Dr. Harold Quickly, 2582”
― Nathan Van Coops, The Warp Clock

“They say necessity is the mother of invention. I've found that a lack of time is usually the mother of necessity.”
― Nathan Van Coops, The Day After Never

“I frequently lecture on the dangers of misusing time. People often ask me afterward about what I feel is the biggest waste of time, suspecting that I will say something like television or arguing politics. I think the biggest waste of time is feeling sorry for yourself. That and traffic. Thankfully I found a way out of that one.” -Excerpt from the journal of Dr. Harold Quickly, 1972   The”
― Nathan Van Coops, In Times Like These

“Claire, AI: "I do not believe losing this component of my mind will be pleasant"
Ben: "No. I don't know that it will be. But maybe part of you willget to go to android heaven and the other parts of you will be that much ahppier.”
― Nathan Van Coops, The Chronothon

“There are few teachers as instructive as your past or as inspirational as your future.”
― Nathan Van Coops, The Warp Clock

“Time is Money’ is an inaccurate statement, unless you are using it in the early twenty-first century connotation of the word, meaning ‘outstanding’, or ‘excellent.’ In that case, I’d be pretty ‘money.’” -Excerpt from the journal of Dr. Harold Quickly, 2009   Carson,”
― Nathan Van Coops, In Times Like These

“It is a gift that we are unable to stop time completely. We must all pay for life one second at a time. If this spending could be stopped, we might become misers and fear to live at all.” -Journal of Dr. Harold Quickly, 2025”
― Nathan Van Coops, The Warp Clock

“Sure, all parenting is tough, but you think you’ve got it bad? Try enforcing a curfew on a teenage daughter who can time travel.”–Journal of Dr. Harold Quickly,”
― Nathan Van Coops, The Chronothon

“Don’t assume that because you know something in the future won’t happen, that you can do nothing. Sometimes the reason it doesn’t happen is you.” -Excerpt from the journal of Dr. Harold Quickly, 1997   I”
― Nathan Van Coops, In Times Like These

“I once met a time traveler who insisted on only traveling to his own birthdays. He claimed he was over a thousand years old. I found the idea rather ridiculous, but I have to admit, he did get a lot of free drinks that way.” -Excerpt from the journal of Dr. Harold Quickly, 2115   The”
― Nathan Van Coops, In Times Like These

“You should never pass up good food just to deal with your personal problems.”
― Nathan Van Coops, In Times Like These

“I’m sure every timestream in the universe has something good to offer. That doesn’t mean I need to visit them all. You say you’ve brought dinosaurs back from extinction in your twenty-first century? I’ll pass. I’ve seen how that movie ends.”–Journal of Dr. Harold Quickly, 2035 Chapter”
― Nathan Van Coops, In Times Like These: Books 1-3

“There are thousands of ways to get yourself killed time traveling. Being in a hurry is the fastest way to find a new one.” -Excerpt from the journal of Dr. Harold Quickly, 1912   On”
― Nathan Van Coops, In Times Like These

“You’d be surprised how wrong textbooks can be, too. I’ve realized that people are happier thinking what they know is true. Telling them the actual truth doesn’t always improve things.”
― Nathan Van Coops, In Times Like These

“Guard your minutes and seconds closer than your dollars and cents. You can predict when you’ll be out of money, but not when you’ll be out of time.” -Excerpt from the journal of Dr. Harold Quickly, 1986”
― Nathan Van Coops, In Times Like These: Books 1-3

“I’ve failed to time travel far more times than I’ve succeeded. That’s the paradox of invention. Our greatest achievements are birthed like a phoenix from the ashes of disappointment.” -Journal of Doctor Harold Quickly, 1996.”
― Nathan Van Coops, The Warp Clock

“Some people go on spiritual journeys to ‘find themselves.’ Time travelers find themselves all the time. We usually take journeys to get away from ourselves.”–Journal of Dr. Harold Quickly, 2010”
― Nathan Van Coops, The Chronothon