Quotes from Bid Time Return — Richard Matheson
1926–2013 United States
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I will try to be consistent, no longer oscillating like some planet that has lost its way. For, at long last, I have found my sun.
Bid Time Return (1978)
I looked at all the people, feeling sorry for them. They were still subordinate to clock and calendar. Absolved of that, I stood becalmed.
Bid Time Return (1978)
To the human eye, stars move very slowly. Considering their relative motion, at this moment she and I might be looking up at virtually the same sight.
She in 1896, me in 1971.
Bid Time Return (1978)
Maurice Nicoll says all history is a living today. We are not enjoying one spark of life in a huge, dead waste. We are, instead, existing at one point "in a vast process of the living who still think and feel but are invisible to us."
Bid Time Return (1978)
Well, why not? My dream woman has always been unavailable to me. What difference does a mere three-quarters of a century make?
Bid Time Return (1978)