Цитаты из книги The Langoliers

Sometimes you couldn’t see things because they were too small, but sometimes you ignored things because they were too big, too obvious.

“Why, what happens to today when it becomes yesterday, what happens to the present when it becomes the past. It waits — dead and empty and deserted. It waits for them. It waits for the time-keepers of eternity, always running along behind, cleaning up the mess in the most efficient way possible... by eating it.”

But a statistician will tell you that sooner or later whatever can happen will happen...

Be careful what you pray for, because you just might get it.

Never believe a writer. Listen to them, by all means, but never believe them.

... knowledge is always better — safer — in the long run than ignorance, no matter how dismayed one may feel when one first understands certain facts.

... useful thinking must always precede useful action.

Food does have a beneficial effect on what Monsieur Poirot liked to call the little gray cells.

One of the simple, unexceptional truths of life was this: guys with dirt on their suits have no credibility.

... my mother always said prudence is the better part of valor.

If life was like a mystery novel, Albert, where coincidence is not allowed and the odds are never beaten for long, it would be a much tidier business. I’ve found, though, that in real life coincidence is not the exception but the rule.

Я всегда находил, что ожидание - самая трудная участь.

- Вроде бы у пилотов есть правило не прикасаться к спиртному перед полетом?

• Это правило не действует, когда речь идет о полетах во времени. Можешь заглянуть в инструкцию.

Никогда не верь писателю. Слушай его, это обычное дело, но никогда не верь.

Темноты он не боялся, наоборот, радовался ей. В темноте эффективность твоих действий уже не являлась основным критерием.