“My heart, for unknown reasons, seems to freeze in motion in my chest. I can see he senses it and he holds his pause to enjoy my suffering, prolonging my ignorance. Viktor, what?”

“How many times can a heart be shattered and still be pieced back together? How many times before the damage is irreparable?”

“Whatever happened in those more than one hundred years, from the time my great-great-great grandfather studied law to the time when my own father took his bar exam in 1989, I may never know. Perhap...”

“Tragic tales rarely do make sense.”

“We ran on the fuel of youth and hormones and ignorant arrogance, imagining we had the whole world and the workings thereof figured out.”

“A smile is hidden beneath the mustache, it crinkles the corners of his hooded eyes. I didnt. I have other business in town and I told my friend I would attend to the matter of his son, as he could ...”

“Racism is a virus which can only be spread by us!”

“Sometimes it's possible, just barely possible, to imagine a version of this world different from the existing one, a world in which there is true justice, heroic honesty, a clear perception possess...”

“That's one of our speculations, by the way. That the prior version of history that this one overwrote was horrible. Complete geopolitical mayhem; half of New York City is underwater. The United Sta...”

“Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there.”

“Poetry and visions, springing as they do from an ever-present sense of mortality, might easily appear morbid to the sturdycommon sense of a burgher-class in the making.”

“You see the world in colors,I see in Black and Red.”

“These were not the belongings of the past prisoner he had imagined. These were a ladys thingshairpins and stockings and a glove. There were more clues waiting but William no longer felt certain he ...”