“Tears sting my eyes once more, building up and rolling over my cheeks with the heat of a dying star. Isnt that what death is? Its forgetting. Its letting go. We make peace with the dead to say good...”

“I dont have to let anyone use me. I dont have to bend the truth. Even if Im not ready to forgive just yet, I dont have to be tied to my scars, to the people who wounded me, or to the anger and fear...”

“Nerve endings. Thats what it all comes down to. Billions of rooted synapses, like trees entwined in erratic soil. Lightning strikes every millionth of a second, the charges scattering across the ga...”

“But when youre a kid, it isnt chaos. Its just a heartbeat. Your house isnt floating through space, it sits on the ground. Once you get old enough you start to see that color is just paint and doors...”

“It was truebut it was harsh. And it feels like maybe a harsh truth can be as hurtful as a lie.”

“I wonder if this is how it feels to grow old. Knowing that time is still passing but youre no longer a part of it.”

“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.”

“She shook off the self-recrimination. What-ifs and could-have-beens were not the way to move forward. She knew that from experience.”

“When your bright future, becomes a dull regret of the past, take a deep breath and move on.”

“Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.”

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”

“There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.”

“In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.”