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Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn’t necessarily do it in chronological order, though.
Douglas Adams (Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5))
Sometimes life doesn't happen in chronological order.
Colleen Hoover (Slammed (Slammed, #1))
We've got an entire lifetime ahead of us to do things like get married. But sometimes things in people's lives don’t happen in chronological order like they should. Especially in our lives. Our chronological order got mixed up a long time ago.
Colleen Hoover (Point of Retreat (Slammed, #2))
Waking, after all, was an almost natal state. You surfaced without history, then spent the blinks and yawns reassembling your past, shuffling the shards into chronological order before fortifying yourself for the present.
Dennis Lehane (Shutter Island)
Your life doesn’t happen in any kind of order. Events don’t have cause and effect relationships the way you wish they did. It’s all a series of fragments and repetitions and pattern formations. Language and water have this in common.
Lidia Yuknavitch (The Chronology of Water)
A person's life consists of a collection of events, the last of which could also change the meaning of the whole, not because it counts more than the previous ones but because once they are included in a life, events are arranged in an order that is not chronological but, rather, corresponds to an inner architecture.
Italo Calvino (Mr Palomar)
Jamie: Maybe you could stop being a neat freak and ease off with barking orders at me. Dante: I resent the neat-freak statement. And I do not bark. Jamie: Sure you don't, Popeye. Dante: And it wouldn't kill you to use the shoe rack. I mean, it's right by the door. Jamie: Stop putting my CD's in chronological order, and I'll work on the shoe rock thing. Dante: How about alphabetical order? Jamie: How about you go to therapy?
Suzanne Wrightt (Wicked Cravings (The Phoenix Pack, #2))
I met a girl in a U-Haul. A beautiful girl And I fell for her. I fell hard. Unfortunately, sometimes life gets in the way. Life definitely got in my way. It got all up in my damn way, Life blocked the door with a stack of wooden 2x4's nailed together and attached to a fifteen inch concrete wall behind a row of solid steel bars, bolted to a titanium frame that no matter how hard I shoved against it- It wouldn't budge. Sometimes life doesn't budge. It just gets all up in your damn way. It blocked my plans, my dreams, my desires, my wishes, my wants, my needs. It blocked out that beautiful girl That I fell so hard for. Life tries to tell you what's best for you What should be most important to you What should come in first Or second Or third. I tried so hard to keep it all organized, alphabetized, stacked in chronological order, everything in its perfect space, its perfect place. I thought that's what life wanted me to do. This is what life needed for me to do. Right? Keep it all in sequence? Sometimes, life gets in your way. It gets all up in your damn way. But it doesn't get all up in your damn way because it wants you to just give up and let it take control. Life doesn't get all up in your damn way because it just wants you to hand it all over and be carried along. Life wants you to fight it. It wants you to grab an axe and hack through the wood. It wants you to get a sledgehammer and break through the concrete. It wants you to grab a torch and burn through the metal and steel until you can reach through and grab it. Life wants you to grab all the organized, the alphabetized, the chronological, the sequenced. It wants you to mix it all together, stir it up, blend it. Life doesn't want you to let it tell you that your little brother should be the only thing that comes first. Life doesn't want you to let it tell you that your career and your education should be the only thing that comes in second. And life definitely doesn't want me To just let it tell me that the girl I met, The beautiful, strong, amazing, resilient girl That I fell so hard for Should only come in third. Life knows. Life is trying to tell me That the girl I love, The girl I fell So hard for? There's room for her in first. I'm putting her first.
Colleen Hoover
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order, a timetable not necessarily--perhaps not possibly--chronological. The time as we know it subjectively is often the chronology that stories and novels follow: it is the continuous thread of revelation.
Eudora Welty (One Writer's Beginnings)
In the meantime, he was dotting the ‘I’s and crossing the ‘T’s, waiting for the S and the H to show up.
Caimh McDonnell (A Man With One of Those Faces (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #1; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #6))
I respect traditional people - they have the eyes which see value in the tarnished. This is a gift in itself. Tradition requires a wealth of discipline in order to be adhered to, hence it is rarely found in youth.
Criss Jami (Healology)
If you want the honest-to-God truth, most people have a lot they want to say and not that much they want to hear.
Caimh McDonnell (A Man With One of Those Faces (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #1; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #6))
Chronological time is what we measure by clocks and calendars; it is always linear, orderly, quantifiable, and mechanical. Kairotic time is organic, rhythmic, bodily, leisurely, and aperiodic; it is the inner cadence that brings fruit to ripeness, a woman to childbirth, a man to change the direction of his life.
Sam Keen
I could now (possibly) go back and restretch those shrunken hours, flake the images separate, arrange them in accurate chronological order, (possibly; with will-power, patience, and the proper chemicals) but being accurate is not necessarily being honest.... Nor is chronological reporting by any means always the most truthful (each camera has its own veracity) especially when, in all good faith, one cannot truthfully claim to remember what happened accurately....
Ken Kesey (Sometimes a Great Notion)
She didn’t go in chronological order, but spoke of whatever came to her mind. One night she would talk of her childhood, another of the wars or the depression. Sometimes she talked about losing four of her five children. It wasn’t until many years later when I repeated some of these things to my daughter that I fully realized how epic a tale my grandmother’s life had actually been. My daughter said to me, “Why don’t you write it down for me?
Donna Foley Mabry (Maude)
I did not ask for objections, but for comments, or helpful suggestions. I looked for more loyalty from you, Captain Hornblower.' That made the whole argument pointless. If Leighton only wanted servile agreement there was no sense in continuing...
C.S. Forester (Ship of the Line (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #7))
You mean we're going chronological order within each author?" he gasped. "But no one even knows for sure when Shakespeare wrote his plays!" "Well," I blustered, "we know he wrote Romeo and Juliet before The Tempest. I'd like to see that reflected on our shelves." George says that was one of the few times he has seriously contemplated divorce.
Anne Fadiman (Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader)
Get off the cross, we need the wood.
Caimh McDonnell (A Man With One of Those Faces (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #1; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #6))
Hornblower bowed to Lady This and Lady That, to Lord Somebody and to Sir John Somebody-else. Bold eyes and bare arms, exquisite clothes and blue Garter-ribbons, were all the impressions Hornblower received.
C.S. Forester (Flying Colours (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #8))
Bush put both arms round Hornblower’s shoulders and walked with dragging feet. It did not matter that his feet dragged and his legs would not function while he had this support; Hornblower was the best man in the world and Bush could announce it by singing ‘For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow’ while lurching along the alleyway.
C.S. Forester (Lieutenant Hornblower (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #2))
Hornblower worked as hard to conceal his human weaknesses as some men worked to conceal ignoble birth.
C.S. Forester (Lieutenant Hornblower (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #2))
she wouldn’t be launching a thousand ships any time soon but she’d undoubtedly create a fair bit of interest in a chip shop queue.
Caimh McDonnell (A Man With One of Those Faces (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #1; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #6))
This was a cruel trick of the mind, yes, but Teddy had long ago accepted the logic of it—waking, after all, was an almost natal state. You surfaced without a history, then spent the blinks and yawns reassembling your past, shuffling the shards into chronological order before fortifying yourself for the present. What
Dennis Lehane (Shutter Island)
A dictionary resembles the world more than a novel does, because the world is not a coherent sequence of actions but a constellation of things perceived. It is looked at, unrelated things congregate, and geographic proximity gives them meaning. If events follow each other, they are believed to be a story. But in a dictionary, time doesn't exist: ABC is neither more nor less chronological than BCA. To portray your life in order would be absurd: I remember you at random. My brain resurrects you through stochastic details, like picking marbles out of a bag.
Édouard Levé (Suicide)
Ianto Jones was at his station behind the run-down Tourist Information Centre that served at a front to the clandestine goings on in Torchwood. His bare feet were on his desk, his tie slumped like a crestfallen snake next to an open pizza box, the top two buttons of his shirt undone. "Taking it easy, I see?" said Jack, stepping out through the security door that led into the Hub itself. "Well at least someone has the right idea. Whatcha doing there, Sport?" "Sport?" said Ianto. "Not sure I like 'Sport' as a term of endearment. 'Sexy is good, if unimaginative. 'Pumpkin' is a bit much, but 'Sport'? No. You'll have to think of another one. "Okay, Tiger Pants. Whatcha doing?" Ianto laughed. "I..." he said, pausing to swallow a mouthful of pizza, "am having a James Bondathon." "A what?" "A James Bondathon. I'm watching my favourite James Bond films in chronological order." "You're a Bond fan?" "Oh yes. He's the archetypal male fantasy, isn't he? The man all women want to have, and all men want to be." "Are you sure it's not the other way around?
David Llewellyn (Trace Memory (Torchwood, #5))
It was like he’d just been issued with a human head for the first time and he was trying to figure out how it worked.
Caimh McDonnell (Angels in the Moonlight (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #3; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #1))
Money didn’t buy you an answer, just a nicer room in which to avoid the question.
Caimh McDonnell (Angels in the Moonlight (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #3; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #1))
Responsibility is the curse of the capable.
Caimh McDonnell (Firewater Blues (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #6; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #3))
it was very hard to enjoy the scenery while simultaneously being terrified of colliding with it.
Caimh McDonnell (A Man With One of Those Faces (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #1; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #6))
Jesus may’ve died for your sins, but his ma was the one who was willing to listen to your excuses.
Caimh McDonnell (A Man With One of Those Faces (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #1; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #6))
don’t try and intimidate somebody my age with prison. The idea of being in a small room with a toilet beside the bed is frankly heavenly. Now off you pop.
Caimh McDonnell (Last Orders (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #4; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #8))
They were in the corner booth, which had probably seen more crimes planned than anywhere else in Ireland, with the possible exception of the bar in Government Buildings.
Caimh McDonnell (Last Orders (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #4; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #8))
Inspiration doesn't always come in chronological order.
Gina Marinello-Sweeney
People say life is short, but it's not. It's long, so damn long – ye can't help but make a mess of it. ‘Tis like roulette. You sit at that table for an hour, you might just come away a winner. You sit there long enough, and the house always wins.
Caimh McDonnell (The Day That Never Comes (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #2; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #7))
Is it that when these events are in chronological order they are not propelled forward by cause and effect, by need and satisfaction, they do not spring ahead with their own energy but are simply dragged forward by the passage of time?
Lydia Davis (The End of the Story)
The cork was in the bottle. He and the Atropos were trapped.
C.S. Forester (Hornblower and the Atropos (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #5))
Nuns didn’t age in human years,
Caimh McDonnell (Dead Man's Sins (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #5; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #2))
Paul glanced across the road. The fox was now sniffing at the sandwich it had retrieved. Rather than eating it, it elected to urinate on it instead. As reviews went, it was pretty damning.
Caimh McDonnell (A Man With One of Those Faces (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #1; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #6))
The old concept of chronological, orderly, symmetrical development of character died when it was discovered that the unconscious motivations are entirely at odds with fabricated conventions. Human beings do not grow in perfect symmetry. They oscillate, expand, contract, backtrack, arrest themselves, retrogress, mobilize, atrophy in part, proceed erratically according to experience and traumas. Some aspects of the personality mature, others do not. Some live in the past, some in the present. Some people are futuristic characters, some are cubistic, some are hard-edged, some geometric, some abstract, some impressionistic, some surrealistic!
Anaïs Nin (The Novel of the Future)
Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though
Douglas Adams (Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5))
We have been cut off, the past has been ended and the family has broken up and the present is adrift in its wheelchair. ... That is no gap between the generations, that is a gulf. The elements have changed, there are whole new orders of magnitude and kind. [...] My grandparents had to live their way out of one world and into another, or into several others, making new out of old the way corals live their reef upward. I am on my grandparents' side. I believe in Time, as they did, and in the life chronological rather than in the life existential. We live in time and through it, we build our huts in its ruins, or used to, and we cannot afford all these abandonings.
Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose)
Good tip,” said Paul. “Just so I know, where is a good place to get shot?” He’d not yet realised that Dr Sinha was not at home to sarcasm. “Gluteus maximus – most definitely. Gunshot, stab wound – if you get the option, go ass every time.
Caimh McDonnell (A Man With One of Those Faces (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #1; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #6))
Franciscan friar Richard Rohr says that there are two kinds of time, at least according to the ancient Greeks. There is chronos—or chronological, ordered time—and then there is kairos. Kairos is subjective, qualitative. Deep Time is what Rohr calls it. A fullness, he says. The moments when the dots of our lives connect.
Sierra Simone (Saint (Priest, #3))
Regarding the Bible codes: Ge 38 tells the story of Judah and Tamar. Tamar gave birth to Perez and Zerach. As the book of Ruth points out, Perez started a lineage that led to Boaz. Does Ge 38 connect to the book of Ruth, in other ways? As expected, the names Boaz, Ruth (beginning at Ge 38:11), Obed (beginning at 38:20), Jesse, and David (beginning at Ge 38:28), are spelled out with identical numeric skips (minus 49) . . . and, they appear in chronological order! Michael Ben Zehabe, Ruth: a woman’s guide to husband material, pg 19
Michael Ben Zehabe (Ruth: A Woman's Guide to Husband Material)
Sweet baby Jesus and the donkey he rode in on, the breakfast burritos will change your life. I don’t know whether to eat this thing or take it away for a dirty weekend. Incredible.
Caimh McDonnell (Firewater Blues (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #6; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #3))
You can't trust writers. They make up nonsense for a living
Caimh McDonnell (Dead Man's Sins (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #5; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #2))
If you don’t mind me saying, you are a very peculiar man.” “Sane though. I’ve got a piece of paper.
Caimh McDonnell (Bloody Christmas (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #4.5; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #6.5))
We might be done with the past," said Bunny, "but the past ain't done with us.
Caimh McDonnell (The Day That Never Comes (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #2; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #7))
Tall, blonde, skinny. Breasts that looked so impossibly pert, they reminded Paul of intensely interested meerkats.
Caimh McDonnell (A Man With One of Those Faces (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #1; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #6))
Seriously though, how can I ever thank you?” “For feck’s sake woman, you own a pub!
Caimh McDonnell (Bloody Christmas (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #4.5; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #6.5))
I just wish that Statistics was as easy as arranging numbers in chronological order, finding the median, lower and upper quartiles, and placing them on a Box and whisker's chart
Charmaine J. Forde
Star Trek? Oh, I did my homework. TOS, TNG, DS9. Even Voyager and Enterprise. I watched them all in chronological order. The movies, too. Phasers locked on target.
Ernest Cline (Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1))
(As a novelist, he was a little fussy about chronological order, a tad old-fashioned.)
John Irving (Avenue of Mysteries)
He cursed himself for wasting the few minutes he’d had before having to flee his home on sorting through DVDs, rather than doing practical stuff like putting on some more clothes. At times like this, it was hard for him to run from the suspicion that he might be an idiot.
Caimh McDonnell (A Man With One of Those Faces (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #1; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #6))
In ten years’ time you’ll look back at twenty-six and wish you’d realised you had your whole life ahead of you. And at forty-six you’ll look back at thirty-six and think the exact same thing. The world is full of people killing time because they think they’ve no time left.
Caimh McDonnell (Bloody Christmas (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #4.5; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #6.5))
He noticed buildings came with mission statements these days. It really knocked you back on your arse to realise that inanimate structures had their lives more together than you did.
Caimh McDonnell (Firewater Blues (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #6; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #3))
It’s the winter. The Homo sapiens is supposed to put on a layer of fat to help maintain itself and keep warm through the colder months.” “Is that right? Are you expecting another ice age?
Caimh McDonnell (Bloody Christmas (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #4.5; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #6.5))
Whichever the years flow it was impossible to outmaneuver their passage. Even chronology doesn't guarantee security. All good things ended. Always. The trick was to enjoy them when they lasted.
Margarita Montimore (Oona Out of Order)
Have you ever noticed how it is almost always men who are banging on about tradition? That’s because the world used to be set up exactly how they like it and things changing doesn’t suit them. That’s all tradition is: people having no other justification for the stupid way things are done.
Caimh McDonnell (Bloody Christmas (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #4.5; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #6.5))
Don’t mistake fireworks for fire.” That was what James had been. Bright colourful lights and explosions that generated no heat. Love at first sight wasn’t love at all; it was just biology. Fire was a different thing. It warmed you against the cold and illuminated your way on the darkest of nights.
Caimh McDonnell (Angels in the Moonlight (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #3; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #1))
Godfrey's wife Charmian sat with her eyes closed, attempting to put her thoughts into alphabetical order which Godfrey had told her was better than no order at all, since she now had grasp of neither logic nor chronology.
Muriel Spark (Memento Mori)
The way you remember or dream about your loved ones - the ones who are gone - you can't stop their endings from jumping ahead of the rest of their stories. You don't get to choose the chronology of what you dream, or the order of events in which you remember someone. In your mind - in your dreams, in your memories - sometimes the story begins with the epilogue.
John Irving (Avenue of Mysteries)
Malachi Smith. Crispin Jones. Suzette Boudrot. Claude Le Breton.” Matthew paused as Ransome searched the ledger’s entries for the names. “You should have kept them in chronological order instead of alphabetical. That’s how I remember them.” Ransome
Deborah Harkness (The Book of Life (All Souls, #3))
Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though.
Douglas Adams (The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1-5))
Delaney had the personal hygiene standards of a mentally-challenged baboon. Every time Mulholland looked at him he had a finger somewhere new – in his ear, eye, nostril, mouth. It was like he’d just been issued with a human head for the first time and he was trying to figure out how it worked.
Caimh McDonnell (Angels in the Moonlight (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #3; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #1))
The central concern of Egyptian art, literature, and architecture was the divine world order -- the pharaoh and the gods, who were essentially one and the same. To the Egyptians, that divine order was eternal and unchanging, but it did not rest on a coherent and defined system of belief. The same god might be seen one time as the sky, another time as a bird; he might have a mythical mother, yet it might be said that he gave birth to himself; the sky could be both a cow and a goddess. The Egyptians did not think in chronological or logical terms but pictured the same phenomenon in a number of different ways.
Norman F. Cantor (Antiquity: The Civilization of the Ancient World)
My mind, it was certain, was a well-oiled mechanism which worked swiftly and seminoiselessly. I often competed with radio contestants on quiz programs and usually won hands down in my living room. Oh, my mental machine could have excited anyone. I meant anyone interested in a person who had memorized the Presidents of the United States in chronological order, the capitals of the world, the minerals of the earth and the generic names of various species. There weren't too many callers for those qualifications and I had to admit that I was greatly lacking in the popular attractions of physical beauty and womanly wiles.
Maya Angelou (Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #3))
Anyway, it's a pretty good story," I said. "You have to admit." "Yeah?" He crumpled up the Kleenex, having dispatched the solitary tear. "You can have it. I'm giving it to you. After I'm gone, write it down. Explain everything. Make it mean something. Use a lot of those fancy metaphors of yours. Put the whole thing in proper chronological order, not like this mishmash I'm making you. Start with the night I was born. March second, 1915. There was a lunar eclipse that night, you know what that is?" "When the earth's shadow falls across the Moon." "Very significant. I'm sure it's a perfect metaphor for something. Start with that." "Kind of trite." I said. He threw the Kleenex at my head. It bounced off my cheek and fell on the floor. I bent to pick it up. Somewhere in its fibers, it held what may have been the last tear my grandfather ever shed. Out of respect for his insistence on the meaninglessness of life--his, everyone's--I threw it into the wastebasket by the door.
Michael Chabon (Moonglow)
Time is there for a purpose, to keep things in order. Once you change chronology you change history. The past could eat up the present . . .
Jan Siegel (Prospero's Children (Fern Capel))
I’m a police officer. Wouldn’t look good, me sitting around in a hotel bar, drinking.” Again, that sounded odd – ‘Eskimo freaks
Caimh McDonnell (Last Orders (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #4; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #8))
Life gives you very few chances and, believe you me, if you mess this one up, you’ll spend the rest of your life regretting it.
Caimh McDonnell (Last Orders (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #4; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #8))
To find out the answers to all of these burning questions and more,
Caimh McDonnell (Last Orders (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #4; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #8))
There are many many fine women drivers in the world but none of them… are in this car.
Caimh McDonnell (A Man With One of Those Faces (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #1; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #6))
the woman in question is the most highly paid, shall we say, lady of negotiable virtue, on this fair and noble isle.
Caimh McDonnell (Firewater Blues (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #6; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #3))
Receptionists were the canaries down the coal mine of the modern office; there was nothing worth knowing that they wouldn’t know first.
Caimh McDonnell (The Day That Never Comes (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #2; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #7))
What was life without risk? So many people lived it like they thought that if they were careful enough, they could get out of it alive.
Caimh McDonnell (The Family Jewels (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #7; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #4))
let all who take refuge in you be glad;
Anonymous (The Daily Bible® -- in Chronological Order (NIV®))
Be strong and courageous, and do the work.
Anonymous (The Daily Bible® -- in Chronological Order (NIV®))
The correspondence, thus arranged in chronological order, forms an almost continuous record of Mrs. Browning’s life, from the early days in Herefordshire to her death in Italy in 1861; but in order to complete the record, it has been thought well to add connecting links of narrative, which should serve to bind the whole together into the unity of a biography.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Speaking of which, isn’t there supposed to be some complimentary grub available?” The woman looked at the door behind the bar. “There’s food, but nobody has been complimentary about it.
Caimh McDonnell (Angels in the Moonlight (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #3; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #1))
The middle ages did not care much for alphabetical order, because they were committed to rational order. To the medieval mind, the universe [is] a harmonious whole whose parts are related to one another. It was the responsibility of the author or scholar to discern these rational relationships -- of hierarchy, or of chronology, or of similarities and differences, and so forth.
Matthew Battles (Library: An Unquiet History)
His intention, after Isabel left Paris, was to go to Greece, but this he abandoned. What he actually did he told me himself many years later, but I will relate it now because it is more convenient to place events as far as I can in chronological order. Maugham, W. Somerset (2011-01-26). The Razor's Edge (Vintage International) (p. 77). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
W. Somerset Maugham
I thought he preferred Ronan,” Declan said. It was the most ridiculous thing to say. It was the most meaningless of takeaways. But out it came. Declan and the new Fenian were situated just as they had been when they’d begun this: the new Fenian on the wooden chair he’d pulled up, Declan on the couch, memories tied up and down his fingers. The new Fenian had sorted through the bright strings with supernatural skill, finding just the ones he’d wanted. Then he’d carefully tied them onto Declan in chronological order, from the day his mother had arrived at the Barns with Declan until the day she’d left the Barns without him. Niall had stayed, always choosing Declan, a life with Declan beside him as much as possible. A life with Ronan, because Declan had cared for him when no one else yet did. It had only taken minutes to experience the memories, but it had felt like years. Dream logic. Dream time. Declan wasn’t the same person he’d been on the other side of it. His father had loved him, adored him, favored him. Given up everything for him. “You had to know you were the favorite,” the new Fenian said. “Didn’t I—he take you everywhere with him that he could?
Maggie Stiefvater (Greywaren (Dreamer Trilogy, #3))
What do you expect?” “I expect someone lives there in secret, only coming in and out at night, with a dark lantern. We shall probably discover a gang of desperate criminals and get a reward. It’s all rot to say a house would be empty all those years unless there was some mystery.“ “Daddy thought it must be the drains,” said Polly. “Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of un-interesting explanations,” said Digory.
C.S. Lewis (The Magician's Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia (Chronological Order) #1))
I refused to have bookshelves, horrified that I'd feel compelled to organise the books in some regimented system - Dewey or alphabetical or worse - and so the books lived in stacks, some as tall as me, in the most subjective order I could invent. Thus Nabokov lived between Gogol and Hemingway, cradled between the Old World and the New; Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser and Thomas Hardy were stacked together not for their chronological proximity but because they all reminded me in some way of dryness (though in Dreiser's case I think I was focused mainly on his name): George Eliot and Jane Austen shared a stack with Thackeray because all I had of his was Vanity Fair, and I thought that Becky Sharp would do best in the presence of ladies (and deep down I worried that if I put her next to David Copperfield, she might seduce him).
Rebecca Makkai (The Borrower)
His every facial attribute was a masterpiece of bloody-minded unoriginality, an aesthetic tribute to the forgettably average. Collectively they formed an orchestra designed to produce the facial muzak of the Gods.
Caimh McDonnell (A Man With One of Those Faces (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #1; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #6))
The most exciting things to happen in Dullsville in my lifetime, in chronological order: 1. The 3:10 train jumped its tracks, spilling boxes of Tootsie Rolls, which we devoured. 2. A senior flushed a cherry bomb down the toilet, exploding the sewage line, closing school for a week. 3. On my sixteenth birthday a family rumored to be vampires moved into the haunted mansion on top of Benson Hill! -Vampire Kisses: The Beginning
Ellen Schreiber
You know,” began Bunny, “they’re a funny couple of words, aren’t they – ‘political correctness’? I’m a muck savage from the shitty end of Cork, and nobody’s idea of diplomat material, but it strikes me that those two words are simply a derogatory label for what used to be known as basic manners. I live by a very simple rule because I’m a very simple man: people deserve respect until they prove they don’t. I don’t really care who they are, where they’re from or what they look like.
Caimh McDonnell (Firewater Blues (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #6; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #3))
He was aware that younger lads and even more tragically, some older lads, felt that the height of modern romance was sending a picture of your tackle to a lady, but he found the idea horrific. Bar anything else, he’d never considered that to be an attractive bit of kit. It looked like something you’d find in a butcher’s bin. If that made the top five list of your best features, then you needed to take a night class or learn to juggle or something, because you were not much of a catch.
Caimh McDonnell (Bloody Christmas (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #4.5; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #6.5))
That was something a lot of people didn’t get about true sporting rivalries. You don’t actually hate the so-called enemy; on the contrary, you need them. Victory is only victory and defeat is only defeat when there is something to hold it against.
Caimh McDonnell (Firewater Blues (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #6; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #3))
Different ideas will capture my imagination and ask if they can be in a story. Sometimes they fit together and sometimes they don't. One notion leads to another and I might write pages that will have to go away later, but I'm sketching, getting to know a character, how he or she speaks or lives, so I just let it flow. Things start to click. I don't outline before starting, nor do I write one chapter at a time or even in chronological order. If I'm thinking about a scene, conversation, or event that will come later, I page down and write away.
Lisa Preston
Bush could never understand Hornblower's disciplinary methods. He had been positively horrified when he had heard his captain's public admission that he too had baths under the washdeck pump — it seemed madness for a captain to allow his men to guess that they were of the same flesh as his.
C.S. Forester (Ship of the Line (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #7))
A novel is a storyline with an antagonist and protagonist, a plot, conflict, and resolution. A memoir is a slice of life. An autobiography is limited to the facts set out in chronological order. When left in the hands of a deft writer a short story is a literature delicacy, a delectable dish comparable to eating a spoonful of chocolate mousse. An essay, in contrast, shows an energetic mind at work. Each essayist employs the prose style and technique that best fits the writer’s climactic meanderings. Personal essays are malleable in form; they contain a blend of memoir, observation, speculation, and opinion.
Kilroy J. Oldster (Dead Toad Scrolls)
Supporters of apokatastasis in roughly chronological order: - [c. 30-105] Apostle Paul and various NT authors - [c. 80-150] Scattered likely references among Apostolic Fathers o Ignatius o Justin Martyr o Tatian o Theophilus of Antioch (explicit references) - [130-202] Irenaeus - [c. 150-200] Pantaenus of Alexandria - [150-215] Clement of Alexandria - [154-222] Bardaisan of Edessa - [c. 184-253] Origen (including The Dialogue of Adamantius) - [♱ 265] Dionysius of Alexandria - [265-280] Theognustus - [c. 250-300] Hieracas - [♱ c. 309] Pierius - [♱ c. 309] St Pamphilus Martyr - [♱ c. 311] Methodius of Olympus - [251-306] St. Anthony - [c. 260-340] Eusebius - [c. 270-340] St. Macrina the Elder - [conv. 355] Gaius Marius Victorinus (converted at very old age) - [300-368] Hilary of Poitiers - [c. 296-373] Athanasius of Alexandria - [♱ c. 374] Marcellus of Ancrya - [♱378] Titus of Basra/Bostra - [c. 329-379] Basil the Cappadocian - [327-379] St. Macrina the Younger - [♱387] Cyril of Jerusalem (possibly) - [c. 300-388] Paulinus, bishop of Tyre and then Antioch - [c. 329-390] Gregory Nazianzen - [♱ c. 390] Apollinaris of Laodicaea - [♱ c. 390] Diodore of Tarsus - [330-390] Gregory of Nyssa - [c. 310/13-395/8] Didymus the Blind of Alexandria - [333-397] Ambrose of Milan - [345-399] Evagrius Ponticus - [♱407] Theotimus of Scythia - [350-428] Theodore of Mopsuestia - [c. 360-400] Rufinus - [350-410] Asterius of Amaseia - [347-420] St. Jerome - [354-430] St. Augustine (early, anti-Manichean phase) - [363-430] Palladius - [360-435] John Cassian - [373-414] Synesius of Cyrene - [376-444] Cyril of Alexandria - [500s] John of Caesarea - [♱520] Aeneas of Gaza - [♱523] Philoxenus of Mabbug - [475-525] Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite - [♱543] Stephen Bar Sudhaili - [580-662] St. Maximus the Confessor - [♱ c. 700] St. Isaac of Nineveh - [c. 620-705] Anastasius of Sinai - [c. 690-780] St. John of Dalyatha - [710/13-c. 780] Joseph Hazzaya - [813-903] Moses Bar Kepha - [815-877] Johannes Scotus Eriugena
Ilaria Ramelli
During 36 years of marriage, the long-suffering Mrs Stewart had convinced her workaholic husband to go abroad on holiday exactly twice. DI Jimmy Stewart didn’t like abroad. He didn’t like the sea, the sun or foreigners. Not in a racist way, they just insisted on having their own languages and he had a copper’s pathological dislike of things he didn’t understand. The second time they went abroad, they’d gone to Crete. He’d not liked it but he’d kept that largely to himself. The woman had given birth to and raised four kids, all of whom he loved and three of whom he liked. Once he’d given in, he’d decided it was only fair to let her enjoy the holiday and not be a moany prick about it.
Caimh McDonnell (A Man With One of Those Faces (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #1; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #6))
Eventually every woman who stays away from her soul-home for too long, tires. This is as it should be. Then she seeks her skin again in order to revive her sense of self and soul, in order to restore her deep-eyed and oceanic knowing. This great cycle of going and returning, going and returning, is reflexive within the instinctual nature of women and is innate to all women for all their lives, from throughout girlhood, adolescence, and young adulthood, through being a lover, through motherhood, through being a craftswoman, a wisdom-holder, an elderwoman, and beyond. These phases are not necessarily chronological, for mid-age women are often newborn, old women are intense lovers, and little girls know a good deal about cronish enchantment.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés (Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype)
We have always looked to the stars for answers, used stores and mythology to help make sense of what is beyond our reach [...] Perhaps it is the writer in me who sees the stars like chapters in a book, thrown across the sky in no clear order or chronology. If only I could rearrange them in a more orderly way, in a shape that made sense to me, then I would understand the story better. Yet logic tells me those stars are millions of light years apart, they care not a jot that they share space in our sky. Are we fools to look for meaning?
Sophie Cousens (Before I Do)
My intention, this time, was to transfer a play to the screen while keeping its theatrical character. It was in some senses a matter of walking, invisibly, around the stage and catching the different aspects and nuances in the play, the urgency and the facial expressions that escape a spectator who cannot follow them in detail from a seat in the stalls. Apart from that, I had noticed how effective a play becomes when you have a bird's-eye view from it, for example from the flies, that is to say from the viewpoint of a voyeur. The Audience is enclosed with the characters in a room lacking its fourth wall and listens to them on equal terms, without the element of my story conferred on scenes of intimacy by the whimsical shape of a keyhole.” “L'aigle à deux têtes is not History. It is a story, an invented story lived out by imaginary heroes, and I should never have dared venture into the realistic world of cinema without being able to rely on the help of Christian Bérard. He has a genius for situating whatever he touches, for giving it a depth in time and space and an appearance of truth that are literally inimitable.” (...) “A drama of this kind would be unacceptable, and almost impossible to tell, unless it was interpreted by superb actors who could instill grandeur and life into it. Edwige Feuillère and Jean Marais, applauded evening after evening in their parts in the play, surpass themselves on the screen and give of themselves, as I suggested above, everything that they cannot give us on the stage.” “George Auric's music and the Strauss waltzes at the krantz ball make up the liquid in this drama of love and death is immersed.” (...) “In L'aigle à deux têtes, I wanted to make a theatrical film.” (...) “I know the faults of the film, but unfortunately the expense of the medium and the constraints of time that it imposes on us, prevent us from correcting our faults, Cinematography costs too much.” (...) “In Les parents terribles (1948), what I determined to do was the opposite of what I did in L'aigle à deux têtes; to de-theatricalize a play, to film it in chronological order and to catch the characters by surprise from the indiscreet angle of the camera. In short, I wanted to watch a family through the keyhole instead of observing its life from a seat in the stalls.
Jean Cocteau (The Art of Cinema)
...the writer of the Morte did not know what had happened, what was happening, nor what was going to happen. He was caught as we are now. in forlornness - he didn't know that this was the least important of problems. He must have felt that the economic world was out of tune since the authority of the manors was slipping away. The revolts of the subhuman serfs must have caused consternation in his mind. The whisperings of religious schism were all around him so that the unthinkable chaos of ecclesiastical uncertainty must have haunted him. Surely he could only look forward to those changes, which we find healthy, with horrified misgivings. And out of this devilish welter of change - so like the one today - he tried to create a world of order, a world of virtue governed by forces familiar to him. And what material had he to build with? Not the shelves of well-ordered source books, not even the public records of his time, not a single chronological certainty, since such a system did not exist. He did not even have a dictionary in any language. Perhaps he had a few manuscripts, a missal, maybe the Alliterative Poems. Beyond this, he had only his memory and his hopes and his intuitions. If he could not remember a word, he had to use another or make one up.
John Steinbeck
king contributed from his own possessions for the morning and evening burnt offerings and for the burnt offerings on the Sabbaths, at the New Moons and at the appointed festivals as written in the Law of the LORD. 4He ordered the people living in Jerusalem to give the portion due the priests and Levites so they could devote themselves to the Law of the LORD. 5As soon as the order went out, the Israelites generously gave the firstfruits of their grain, new wine, olive oil and honey and all that the fields produced. They brought a great amount, a tithe of everything. 6The people of Israel and Judah who lived in the towns of Judah also brought a tithe of their herds and flocks and a tithe of the holy things dedicated to the LORD their God, and they piled them in heaps. 7They began doing this in the third month and finished in the seventh month. 8When Hezekiah and his officials came and saw the heaps, they praised the LORD and blessed his people Israel. 9Hezekiah asked the priests and Levites about the heaps; 10and Azariah the chief priest, from the family of Zadok, answered, “Since the people began to bring their contributions to the temple of the LORD, we have had enough to eat and plenty to spare, because the LORD has blessed his people, and this great amount is left over.” 11Hezekiah gave orders to prepare storerooms in the temple of the LORD, and this was done. 12Then they faithfully brought in the contributions, tithes and dedicated gifts.
Anonymous (The One Year Chronological Bible NIV)