“There are things in this world that the children hear, but whose sounds oscillate below an adult's sense of pitch.”

“With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.”

“Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years ago before I started, but I am no longer sure how this works. Perhaps a patina...”

“The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go.”

“When there is nothing to catchAnd nothing is catching you,You are free;From all your separations!”

“Those who have become vitarag (free from all worldly attachments), will have no intent of ownership (maliki bhav).”

“It's still romantic falling inlove for someone for who she is and what she says and what she believes in.”

“For every inch of skin, there is memory. Devils are so made. Saints, too, if you believe in them. His humanity has been broken as an old walking stick that once held up a crippled man named Thomas....”

“It frightens me that I can't do anything sensible about it.""Are you scared that you'll wind up with a boring job where you have to see the same people every day and drink instant coffee?""I'm more...”

“She'd be dead before the memories and pain were finally gone; she knew it, accepted it, and dealt with it.”

“And these thingsthat keep alive on departure know that you praise them; transient,they look to us, the most transient, to be their rescue.They want us to change them completely, in our invisible h...”

“History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.”

“God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.”