“If youre smart, you care. And if you care, you love.”

“But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.”

“It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.”

“But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing.”

“on the day that started it all, that rocketed me forward and landed me here, in this new body, in this new future.”

“Once you let in the word, once you allow it to take root, it will spread like a mold through all of your corners and dark spaces and with it, the questions, the shivery, splintered fears, enough to...”

“After that hard winter, one could not get enough of the nimble air. Every morning I wakened with a fresh consciousness that winter was over. There were none of the signs of spring for which I used ...”

“He realized that when he had been afraid to change he had been holding on to the illusion of Old Cheese that was no longer there”

“Where to start?Everything cracks and shakes,The air trembles with similes,No one world's better than another;the earth moans with metaphors.”

“Lost Time is never found again.”

“How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.”

“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”