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30 Day Book Challenge, Day 27: Favorite fiction book

"Out of habit he looks at his watch - stainless-steel case, burnished aluminum band, still shiny although it no longer works. He wears it now as his only talisman. A blank face is what it shows him: zero hour. It causes a jolt of terror to run through him, this absence of official time. Nobody nowhere knows what time it is."
- Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake