“Serena has spent her life fighting fiction the way good soldiers fightintent on detecting its presence, harassing it, suppressing itbut I have to find a way to show her shes mistaken her enemy, to ...”

“We dont even survive in the memories of the living. Science has destroyed that myth. Whenever we remember something, what were doing is remembering the last time we remembered it; our memory doesnt...”

“A law of life: at the precise instant when someone tells a truth, that truth is transformed into a story”

“It was nostalgic in that painful way nostalgia could be”

“We cannot escape the longing, no matter what life we choose. Were either longing for people, places or times gone by, which are essentially the same things: memories. And, whether or not we travel,...”

“What seems real one moment is fiction the nextand gone out of existence the moment after that.Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth,and change our only constancy.”