“Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights.”
“Computers are good, but only while they are working. Otherwise, they are no more use than a paperweight”
“The loss of something that is never thought of, felt, or sought for when lost is not a loss at all.”
“The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.”
“The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity.”
“Losing is never just by itself a loss...”