“He looks sad. Or maybe that's just how he looks when he isn't doing something else with his face.”

“He said something interesting: he said that he thinks there is only free will when you are in time, in the present. He says in the past we can only do what we did, and we can only be there if we were there.”

“Roy is my favorite security guy. He's a huge African-American gentleman who always has a beautiful smile on his face. He's the King of the Main Desk, and I'm always glad to arrive at work and bask in his magnificent good cheer.”

“now it becomes clear that he's one of those people who is fastidious about his personal appearance but secretly skivenly about everything else”

“Sometimes I'm happy when he's gone, but I'm always happy when he returns. -Clare”

“Even her name seemed empty, as though it had detached itself from her and was floating untethered in his mind. How am I supposed to live without you? It was not a matter of the body; his body would carry on as usual. The problem was located in the word how: he would live, but without Elspeth the flavour, the manner, the method of living were lost to him. He would have to relearn solitude.”

“When it's over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days.”