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Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.

Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.

Margaret Atwood
Time, Space, Lines
Margaret Atwood (2011). “Cat's Eye”, p.16, Anchor

Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water.

Margaret Atwood
Time, Children, Water
Margaret Atwood (2016). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.352, Random House

The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.

Margaret Atwood
Time, Sand, Without A Trace
Margaret Atwood (2014). “The MaddAddam Trilogy Bundle: The Year of the Flood; Oryx & Crake; MaddAddam”, p.571, Anchor

Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. If you can bend space you can bend time also, and if you knew enough and could move faster than light you could travel backwards in time and exist in two places at once.

Margaret Atwood
Time, Moving, Light
Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float.

Margaret Atwood
Time, Sea, Floats

You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.

Margaret Atwood
Time, Water, Looks
Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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