“Boy, did she love those idiots.”

“I will always believe in you. And thats more powerful than memory.”

“Just a boy, Just a child,In a place where no one grows up;Young bodies with old minds,Dream and nightmare reign side by side,In a place where no one grows up;A time when darkness shrouded the sun,V...”

“I may forget myself, but you I could never forget.”

“Stories help us remember what we never want to forget.”

“I was going to make him proud of the man I would become. I was finally going to chart my own course, rattle the stars, and then Then I would deserve it.Deserve what?The way he used to look at me, l...”

“They thought more before nine a.m. than most people thought all month. I remember once declining cherry pie at dinner, and Rand cocked his head and said, 'Ahh! Iconoclast. Disdains the easy, symbol...”

“Keep the good memories and throw out the bad ones”

“Bad memories were hard enough, but it was torture to be haunted by the good.”

“I assumed that looking back reminded older guys of what they had shot at and missed, the what-ifs, the good memories, the bad, the people left behind, the people who moved on.”

“But who can remember pain, once its over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”

“I know what you are learning to endure. There is nothing to be done. Make sure nothing is wasted. Take notes. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In lif...”

“My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning does not stop. The machines do not rest, the systems rarely ...”