“They laughed together, because laughter in number is saferthan laughter alone.”
“Don't take a pretty book home just cuz it's pretty," Mom always said, "and a girl neither."Somewhere”
“Teeth could befixed, the past couldn't be. He wondered if memories could be. He wanted to fix his memories.”
“He was looking backwards, and that was an entirely different thing. Looking backwards wasimportant, even when you were standing still. He had to see what was there. There was somethingback there, and even if everybody else didn't see it, he had to.”