“At the end, one didn't remember life as a whole but as just a string of moments.”

“Luck always seems like it belongs to someone else.”

“I couldn't remember ordinary moments, only the ones that had made an impression. Ordinary moments were the ones that fell away first.”

“There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens you are nostalgic for the moment, you are tucking it away in your scrapbook.”

“Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends.”

“I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed.”

“What remains of your past if you didn't allow yourself to feel it when it happened? If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories.”