“...the nostalgia for things that weren't yet lost.”

“Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather the learned sympathy towards the pain of others.”

“What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.”

“Remembering tires a person out. this is something they don't teach us. Exercising one's memory is an exhausting activity. It draws our energy and wears down our muscles.”

“There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.”

“The world's a scary place these days. Grandpa,, you've seen worse things, haven't you? Please tell me the world has always been like this.”

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect fo...”

“Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.”

“Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.”

“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.”