“She said once that time is nothing to me but a series of bookmarks that I use to jump back and forth through the text of my life, returning again and again to the events that mark me in the eyes of...”

“One that society can't forgive, but I can.”

“But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would not scar over, would not stop leaking.”

“Teddy wondered, and not for the first time, not by a long shot, if this was the day that missing her would finally be too much for him.”

“Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages of dangerous medicine but through an honest reckoning of the self.”

“How much violence, Marshal, do you think a man can carry before it breaks him?”

“They keep track of time. Sometimes things happen and you feel that you need to mark them down.”

“Does religious conviction provide a powerful reason for killing? Undeniably it often does. It also often provides the sole compelling reason for refusing to kill, or for being merciful, or for seek...”

“the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.”