Marking Time Quotes

“The schoolroom clock was worn raw by stares; and you couldn't look up at the big Puritanical face of it and not feel the countless years of young eyes reflected in it, urging it onwards. It was a dark, old spirit that didn't so much mark time as bequeath it.”
― Tod Wodicka, All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well

“I can't say why I went to college–except that I had been going to school all my life and didn't know what else to do. I didn't go with any particular hope. Hell, I knew what I was in for eventually. I was just marking time. Whatever I did was just marking time. If people were willing to pay me to go to school and mark time, why not do it?
The weird part was, I worked hard, got top grades. If you work hard enough at something that doesn't matter, you can forget a while about the things that do.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Bloodchild and Other Stories

“Curious how a man often calendared his glory and grief with a woman for asterisk.”
― Wilfrido D. Nolledo, But for the Lovers