“Time was moving backward, it seemed, and the future was mostly forgotten.”

“She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?”

“Even exciting places are boring most of the time. Wars. Movie sets. Emergency rooms.”

“Looking back, it was the thing in his life that shamed him the most: the times he was purposefully, calculatingly mean to Alice. It was those moments, and there had been many of them, that indicated to him that he was not a good person. He got mad at her for many things, but it was always really for the same thing: that she possessed his love and he couldn't seem to get it back.She didn't deserve it, which was to say she deserved better”

“You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.”

“Sometimes you couldn’t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.”

“She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.”