“Time's a slut, she screws with everyone.”

“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”

“What a slut time is. She screws everybody. a”

“And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers.”

“Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as the only person in the world not to hate, and so we spent all this time together just ragging on everyone, you know?”

“I don't understand why I screw everything up.”

“She will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and everyone but herself and her mom in those last moments she spent as a person.”