How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"Why, look," said Neville, "at the clock ticking on the mantelpiece? Time passes, yes. And we grow old. But to sit with you, alone with you, here in London, in this firelit room, you there, I here, is all." (6b.24)
Just as time felt infinite to Neville when he and his friends came together, he can also disregard the time on the clock when he spends time with his lover. Ahh, l'amour!
Quote #5
"But if one day you do not come after breakfast, if one day I see you in some looking-glass perhaps looking after another, if the telephone buzzes and buzzes in your empty room, I shall then, after unspeakable anguish, I shall then—for there is no end to the folly of the human heart—seek another, find another, you. Meanwhile, let us abolish the ticking of time's clock with one blow. Come closer." (6b.28)
Once again, Neville suggests that the bonds of love can somehow exist outside the time of the clock, allowing time to stand still for at least a little while.
Quote #6
"Silence falls; silence falls," said Bernard. "But now listen; tick, tick; hoot, hoot; the world has hailed us back to it. I heard for one moment the howling winds of darkness as we passed beyond life. Then tick, tick (the clock); then hoot, hoot (the cars). We are landed; we are on shore; we are sitting, six of us, at a table. It is the memory of my nose that recalls me. I rise; 'Fight,' I cry, 'fight!' remembering the shape of my own nose, and strike with this spoon upon this table pugnaciously." (8b.29-30)
Bernard associates the will to "fight on" with participation in a world that operates according to the ticking or "hooting" of the clock.