Marking Time Quotes

“I loved history, any kind of history, and even better if it was hidden, secret, or underground.”
― April White, Marking Time

“The day when love is stronger than fear is the day we’ll begin to discover our true power.”
― April White, Marking Time

“Another person, more or less, thinking I'm crazy wasn't going to make me lose sleep. But the look I got from Mr. Shaw wasn't "she's a whack-job," it was more like "hmmm."
"What else can you do?"
Now it was my turn to stare. "Uh, well, I have a freakshow ability to fall through spirals into other times. Is that what you mean?"
"Must be a little disconcerting, that."
"A little. The puking's fun though." Mr. Shaw laughed. I'd made the man laugh. Score one for the Clocker.”
― April White, Marking Time

“The three of us blended with the clientele as well as a fifteen year-old ex-thief, a girl from the future masquerading as a young man, and a second-son of a Lord-turned-student could.”
― April White, Marking Time

“A man chooses what he becomes, and he must accept responsibility for his choices.”
― April White, Marking Time

“Perhaps your friendship with your mother is just shifting to something more… adult.” That felt like a huge responsibility. If I forgave my mother for hiding the truth from me, then I had to totally own my part in our relationship. I couldn’t play the little girl anymore. I couldn’t hide behind her authority and rules and then get mad when they didn’t fit. I’d have to make my own choices and take charge of my own well-being. It’s one thing to say ‘I’m old enough to make my own rules’ and it’s a totally different thing to make the right ones. And live by them.”
― April White, Marking Time

“So how do you know Vampires aren't just some legend made up to scare little kids into minding their parents?"
Adam's voice was full of scorn. "Because you and I exist and we're descendants of Fate and Time.”
― April White, Marking Time

“Then my rescuer turned to look at me and I felt his eyes reach right down into my guts and tangle them up in knots.

With that look I knew I'd jumped straight from the kettle into the fire.”
― April White, Marking Time

“Fortunately, by the time I'd gotten to the stairs I had finished gasping and stepping on dead people, so I was pretty prepared for the next thing to startle me out of my skin.”
― April White, Marking Time

“I practically left my skin in a puddle on the floor. Seriously?! A man’s voice echoed in the cavern, and I had no idea where he was. I fought the urge to run screaming around the cellar like a beheaded chicken with vocal cords, then took a deep breath and winced.”
― April White, Marking Time

“As I got older though, I realized that the horrors are all committed by men, twisting the word of God to suit their own desires for power.”
― April White, Marking Time

“But as I got older I realized that the horrors are all done by men, twisting the word of God to suit their own desires for power.”
― April White, Marking Time

“Cool. I was hanging out with a lunatic I'd found lurking over a dead person. I had a choice here. I could roll with this and somehow figure out how to get back to my real life, or I could freak out and lose it right here, probably be committed with him, and end up in a loony bin of truly epic Victorian ugliness, never to be seen again.”
― April White, Marking Time

“The gas mask keeps me looking like any other tagger - skinny, fast, and vaguely male. Someone would have to be pretty close to tell I'm a girl, and frankly, no one ever gets that close.”
― April White, Marking Time

“more like a grimace.”
― April White, Marking Time

“And what about someone like Jack the Ripper? Does God love him too?” Archer stopped and held my gaze. “A man chooses what he becomes, and he must accept responsibility for his choices.” “You didn’t answer my question.” “I don’t know how to.”
― April White, Marking Time

“Matrilineal succession is the only thing that makes sense as far as I’m concerned, since you always know who the mother is, and the father could be anyone. Most of the royal dynasties of the world didn’t agree with me though, which is why history is filled with idiot kings.”
― April White, Marking Time

“It was hard to tell a person’s age when poverty had probably robbed them of good health a long time ago.”
― April White, Marking Time

“There are those who would say true predators are animals that don’t have free will. I say everything’s a choice. All creatures can choose to live or die, eat or starve, love or hate according to their will.”
― April White, Marking Time

“She smiled at me, her ancient face so lined only the sparkle of her eyes gave it away. “My dear, I can get lost from my bed to the toilet these days. I find presumptions to be a source of false confidence.”
― April White, Marking Time