“Everything you see, you might be seeing for the last time.”

“Life only makes any sense if we can see time how God does. Past, present, and future all at once.”

“You might say that death has relaxed me.”

“Came to . . . see you.”“But I had to go home, remember? You were supposed to say good-bye.”“Don't know why you . . . say good-bye. I say . . . hello.”Her lip quivers between reactions, but she ends up with a reluctant smile. “God you're a cheeseball. But seriously, R—”

“I like how you remember things,’ I say. She looks at me. ‘Well, we have to. We have to remember everything. If we don’t, by the time we grow up it’ll be gone for ever.”

“Good people see past their own fucking lives.”

“We have to remember everything. If we don't, by the time we grow up it'll be gone forever.”