“It's not that he was going nowhere, it's that he'd already arrived.”

“echo, the death of a sound that had nowhere to go but to come back.”

“Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul.He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.”

“It's such a liability to love another person.”

“And if there is no god?You act as if there is, and it's the same thing.”

“It's all I ever really wanted, that revelation. The possibility of fixed stars.”

“Death like a lover, caressing him, promising him peace, running its fingers through his hair, its tongue in his ear. She put her own two fingers in her mouth. Im so sorry. And pulled the trigger”