Perfection, of any kind, was an error. 

 Or is it the first— 

 He’s a human freak as far as I’m concerned. Whatever I think of him, it doesn’t affect my work. 

 Nearly every object of art and entertainment is different in thisworld. Early on, the variations aren't that significant. But as the late 1960s gave way to the vast technological and social leaps of the 1970s, almost everything changed, generating decades of pop cuylture that never existed—fifty years of writers and artists and muscians creating an entirely other body of work. 

 Offered for private sale is a gold watch engineered to allow the discriminating Gentleman the opportunity to experience time in a new way. This is a one-of-a-kind item. Serious inquiries only. Reply to Box 154 at this newspaper. 

 After seeing that Peppermint Patricia wrapper, I knew that any society that could mix two separate flavors like mint and chocolate is more open-minded than I could ever fathom. We must start this revolution so that the women of the future can feel the freedom that I felt in those brief moments. 

 It’s inevitable: Science and technology will advance beyond all imagination, forcing society to perfect itself. Imagine who you could be if you didn’t live in fear. Or more importantly, imagine the stories you could write if your life was full of adventure. 

 She turned and slapped him hard across the face. 

 But they hadn’t existed at the time of Herod the Great. And they hadn’t captured Masada until—what, 66 CE? 

 She’s thirty-six but has felt the same inside since fifteen, when she’d read a pulp magazine and knew with absolute certainty what she wanted to do with her life. 

 Nagkmur finds a chronology on the Internet and searches out a year halfway between the present and their encounter in sixth century Constantinople. The quickest way to identify when things went awry, he tells her, is to work by halves. If AD 1300 is undisturbed, the change came later; otherwise, earlier. 

 It’s not anything fatal. You know it can’t be anything fatal, because if it was, thent here would be no future self who could be sent back to warn you. 

 Fifty percent of snatchers don’t return from their first. Why? Because time is a malevolent killer that tries to eradicate us when we jaunt. But you know all that. 

 His second attempt had not been so subtle, a handgun and cartridges smuggled past Time Adventures people who didn’t even bother to check his luggage. 

 You know you’ve got the wrong equation for closed timelike curves, right? 

 “So, what exactly is a time loop?” I ask, on a wet winter’s night, as I take my shoes off and recline on the professor’s sofa. 

 I told him I was going to be a king in Medieval Times, and here I am getting rich. 

 You warned us you'd be difficult. 

 Hey, pull up the article from April 2018, where they found that airplaine using LIDAR. 

 ♫Speak in a language they don’t know
It don’t matter now♫ 

 If punching Nazis is punishable by death, you’ve arrived too early. 

 What I can’t do is change anything. I can’t change the course of history. I can’t make it so that things work out. Every universe exists complete from the start. It’s all already happened. 

 You are sending me back in time . . . ah, well, not you—God! 

 Your novels are popular now, but in time your work will become even more esteemed . . . more valuable . . . than you can ever know. 

 You’re from the future and it’s very important you talk to the mayor right now about a horrible threat that we have to avert. 

 When we get to my century, I'll introduce you to Amelia Earhart. 

 What do you get when a Neanderthal, a Denisovan, and a Red Deer Cave sit down around a table together? 

 If only I had never known, I could have been happier. 

 When Ruby left for school yesterday it was 2017 but when she returned home in the afternoon she was from 1968.
   I know this to be the case as Ruby informed me that the “girls” in Year 6 would be attending the school library to get their hair and make-up done on Monday afternoon while the “boys” are going to Bunnings [hardware store]. 

 It's as if you've seen the future.