# Quote — Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

> Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. Even for me.

- Author: [Stephenie Meyer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer.md)
- Book: [New Moon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/new-moon.md)
- Page: 93
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephenie_Meyer#New_Moon_(2006)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/new-moon/time-passes-even

## More from this book

> "You try very hard to make up for something that was never your fault. [...] You didn't choose this kind of life, and yet you have to work so hard to be good."
>
> "I don't know that I'm making up for anything," he disagreed lightly. "Like everything in life, I just had to decide what to do with what I was given."

p. 35 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/new-moon/you-try-very.md)

> I felt the smooth wooden floor beneath my knees, and then the palms of my hands, and then it was pressed against the skin of my cheek. I hoped that I was fainting, but, to my disappointment, I didn't lose consciousness. The waves of pain that had only lapped at me before now reared high up and washed over my head, pulling me under.
>
> I did not resurface.

p. 84 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/new-moon/i-felt-the.md)

> Tonight the sky was utterly black. Perhaps there was no moon tonight — a lunar eclipse, a new moon.
>
> A new moon. I shivered, though I wasn't cold.

p. 74 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/new-moon/tonight-the-sky.md)