“He was not in the house. He did not come back that night. Days went by, and at last she understood that he would not return at all.”

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

“Sometimes I am glad when Henry's gone, but I am always glad when he come's back”

“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.”

“He is coming, and I am here.”

“He made the boxes because he was lonely. He didn't have anyone to love, and he made the boxes so he could love them, and so people would know that he existed, and because birds are free and the boxes are hiding places for the birds so they will feel safe, and he wanted to be free and be safe. The boxes are for him so he can be a bird.”

“He thanked her and left the house in the mood of a shipwrecked man who has allowed the rescue ship to pass him by.”