“Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.”

“It's like a life--so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.”

“Ain't you thinkin' what's it gonna be like when we get there? Ain't you scared it won't be nice like we thought?No, she said quickly. No, I ain't. You can't do that. I can't do that. It's too much - livin' too many lives. Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes, it'll on'y be one.”

“Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked.'I don't see how it could be any other way,' said Lee. 'Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn't in time.”

“There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.”

“Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?”

“Life passes by in a wink so try to never miss a moment of it.”