The Time of the Clockmaker Quotes

“People do hide who they are, but sometimes they change. I suppose that was scarier in a way. At some point, you look back and no one knows who you've become. You don't even know yourself.”
― Anna Caltabiano, The Time of the Clockmaker

“But love is not all. It doesn't feed or clothe you. Love is just that - one word in an entire world of sentences. I used to think that love was different. That it couldn't be like any other emotion. But I soon found out that it is. It's not enough to sustain anyone.”
― Anna Caltabiano, The Time of the Clockmaker

“There comes a moment in your life when you realize that you've lost a certain brightness. You see it when you sit in front of the mirror. Others see it in you. All you can do then is try to replace it.”
― Anna Caltabiano, The Time of the Clockmaker

“My life . . . or existence, or whatever this was - didn't concern him. As he said, I belonged in a completely different place, unmoved and untouched by the likes of him. Richard couldn't change anything. No one could. I should have known better than to hope otherwise even for a second. Immortality and the path it put me on were a destiny I could not escape or unwrite.”
― Anna Caltabiano, The Time of the Clockmaker