“If I can live through the events,” she said, “I can get through the memories.”

“If I can live through this, he thought, I can live through anything. If I can live through this, I WILL live through anything.”

“In the Ebbinghaus curve, or forgetting curve, R stands for memory retention, s is the relative strength of memory and t is time. The power of a memory can be built through repetition, but it is the memory we are recalling when we speak, not the event. And stories are annealed in the telling, edited by turns each time they are recalled...People remember what they can live with more often than how they lived.”

“We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can.”

“Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.”

“Live through it," Call said. "That's all we can do.”