“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.”

“Teeth could befixed, the past couldn't be. He wondered if memories could be. He wanted to fix his memories.”

“Don't take a pretty book home just cuz it's pretty," Mom always said, "and a girl neither."Somewhere”

“They laughed together, because laughter in number is saferthan laughter alone.”

“They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.”

“When they separated, the freckleless spot between Pete's eyes was bright red. Before anything else could be said or done, May grabbed her bike and hopped on. She waited until she was six houses down to turn and see if he was still standing in the driveway watching her.He was.She stopped for just a moment, and they caught each other's eyes. Then he slowly started walking backward toward the house. May couldn't see that well, considering that her eyes were still a little blurry and he was far away, but it looked like he was smiling.”

“I wasn't used to looking ahead. Not like Jack. Maybe that was why he had that ready grin. I could see through the dust, but he could see through time, and he didn't even need magic to do it.”