“But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant”

“Given the choice, a yeast cell's ideal state is to be diploid. But if it's in an environment with a lack of nutrients, you know what happens?The diploids break into haploids again. Solitary little haploids. Because, in a crisis, it's easier to survive as a single cell.”

“But as I peeked at my brother's inert body....I was aware only of what a strange thing it was to be male. Society discriminated against women, no question. But what about the discrimination of being sent war? Which sex was really thought to be expendable.”

“Once you've visited the underworld, you never forget the way back.”

“This can't be true but I remember it.”

“that since Cecilia’s suicide, the Lisbons could hardly wait for night to forget themselves in sleep.”

“It was morning by the clock but deepest nighttime in his body.”