“Eva. Every day I've climbed up the belfry chanting a lucky chant at one syllable per beat, "To-day-to-day-let-her-be-here-to-day-to-day.”

“One fine day a predatory world shall consume itself.”

“Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.”

“I have no earliest memories, Archivist. Every day of my life in Papa Song was as uniform as the fries we vended.”

“I made it to Boxing Day because I was too miserable to hang myself. I lie. I made it to Boxing Day because I was too cowardly to hang myself.”

“Creation unfolds, around us, despite us and through us, at the speed of days and nights, and we like to call it "love”

“The mind has a mind of its own. It shows us pictures. Pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. This mind's mind exerts its own will, too, and has its own voice.”