“This is when I realize that Anna has already left the table, and more importantly, that nobody noticed.”
“Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.”
“The important fact is that for the man the act is eternal, and that for the brief space he has to live, he is already dead. He is already in a different world from ours. He has crossed the frontier. The important fact is that something is done which can not be undone-a possibility which none of us realize until we face it ourselves.”
“When the worst that can happen already has, there's not much left to be afraid of anymore,right?”
“It was always too late, she thought. At the point when you actually realized something important, the moment to do anything about it had already slipped by.”
“I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has.”