# Quote — Jack Finney, From Time to Time

> I had the evening to kill, but it didn’t want to die and fought back.

- Author: [Jack Finney](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-finney.md)
- Book: [From Time to Time](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-finney/from-time-to-time.md)
- Page: 212
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_Finney#From_Time_to_Time_(1995)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-finney/from-time-to-time/i-had-the

## More from this book

> Once in a while you’re momentarily conscious of being happy. But I’m superstitious, and I picture Fate—best be respectful, and use a capital F—as a misty presence somewhere up in the sky but not too far away. Always listening, alert and ready to punish forbidden optimism.

p. 38 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-finney/from-time-to-time/once-in-a-while.md)

> “They couldn’t promise that, could they?”
>
> “Of course not. Congress would have to declare war; this was back in the old-fashioned days when Presidents felt they had to honor their oath to abide by the Constitution.”

p. 112 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-finney/from-time-to-time/they-couldnt-promise.md)

> The best thing in our show was always our move to the next town.

p. 233 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-finney/from-time-to-time/the-best-thing.md)