[ { "time": "12:20", "quote_first": "It was already ", "quote_time_case": "12:20 p.m.", "quote_last": ", and he hadn’t heard a word from Fisher, despite giving him clear instructions to call the moment the meeting was over.", "title": "Be Careful What You Wish For", "author": "Jeffrey Archer", "sfw": "yes" }, { "time": "12:20", "quote_first": "He sipped it slowly and lit a Romeo y Julieta Churchill, which an Italian immigrant smuggled in for him in boxes of two hundred and fifty once a month from Cuba. He settled back for a mild celebration. In Boston, Massachusetts, it was ", "quote_time_case": "12:20 P.M.", "quote_last": "—nearly time for lunch.", "title": "Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less", "author": "Jeffrey Archer", "sfw": "yes" }, { "time": "12:20", "quote_first": "At ", "quote_time_case": "twenty minutes after twelve", "quote_last": " he got up, resolutely sealed the large brown envelope, put on his raincoat, and walked down to the village. He dug his hands into his pockets and took longer steps.", "title": "The Hammer of God", "author": "Bo Giertz", "sfw": "yes" }, { "time": "12:20", "quote_first": "“But by the time he reached the top of the hill the woman’s body had basically been eaten up already by the flies, right?” my friend said.
“In a sense,” his girlfriend replied.
“In a sense being eaten by the flies makes it a sad story, doesn’t it?” my friend said.
“Yes, I guess so,” she said after giving it some thought. “What do you think?” she asked me.
“Sounds like a sad story to me,” I replied.
It was ", "quote_time_case": "twelve twenty", "quote_last": " when my cousin came back.", "title": "Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman", "author": "Haruki Murakami", "sfw": "yes" }, { "time": "12:20", "quote_first": "By ", "quote_time_case": "twelve-twenty", "quote_last": " in the afternoon, Vince was seated in a rattan chair with comfortable yellow and green cushions at a table by the windows in that same restaurant. He’d spotted Haines on entering. The doctor was at another window table, three away from Vince, half-screened by a potted palm. Haines was eating shrimp and drinking margaritas with a stunning blonde. She was wearing white slacks and a gaily striped tube-top, and half the men in the place were staring at her.", "title": "Watchers", "author": "Dean Koontz", "sfw": "yes" }, { "time": "12:20", "quote_first": "It is ", "quote_time_case": "12:20", "quote_last": " in New York a Friday three days after Bastille day, yes it is 1959 and I go get a shoeshine because I will get off the 4:19 in Easthampton at 7:15 and then go straight to dinner and I don’t know the people who will feed me", "title": "The Day Lady Died", "author": "Frank O'Hara", "sfw": "yes" } ]