“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.”

“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.”

“1. Heat the oven to Denial.2. Prepare the pan with a spray of Anger.3. Mix in two medium-size bargains with The Bony Guy.4. Add 1/3 cup of Depression (tears will do if you want low-fat).5. Bake...until you can jab a toothpick in your arm and it seems Acceptable.”

“Its not that he didn’t appreciate his dishwasher. There was something about washing dishes by hand that was therapeutic, as if he could wash away the regrets of the past and photos he wanted to wipe out of his memory forever.”

“Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.”