"A Sound of Thunder" Quotes
The consequences of time travel become devastatingly clear in this classic science fiction short story.
short stories | 15 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
If you run out of the path, what happens? Time doesn't permit that sort of mess—a time machineis like a guillotine, a circular guillotine.
Not knowing it, we might kill an important animal, a small bird, a roach, a flower even, thus destroying an important link in a growing species.
You can't change the past, but you might change the future.
The stomp of your foot, on one mouse, could start an earthquake, the effects of which could shake our earth and destinies down through Time, to their very foundations.
We're in the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
It can't be killed, it can't be destroyed, it can't be killed, it can't die.
It's like a stone falling into a pond. It ripples from the center outwards.
The jungle was wide and full of twitterings, rustlings, murmurs, and sighs.
The machine slowed; its scream fell to a murmur.
Not a breath of wind was stirring in the hollow.
