Tim

“In the distance, boys sweet across the sharp, neatly cut grass.

After that, Anna could choose.”
― Hal Ebbott

“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.


Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babylonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“She hurries from the house, wearing a coat too heavy for the weather.

Everything’s ready.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“The place in question was just ten minutes’ walk from Shibuya Station.

Maybe that someday is—now.”
― Saou Ichikawa, Hunchback