“I wanted to stay this way forever.Which, it turns out, was exactly five more minutes.”
“If my doctor told me I only had five minutes to live, I’d probably change all the clocks in my house, because they’re all five minutes fast and I want to know exactly how much time I have left so I can use it wisely.”
“You couldn’t love someone the way he had loved her and then be turned off them in five minutes by nothing more than lies and daydreams. Could you? Could you?”
“Sometimes what I did five minutes ago scared the fuck out of me five minutes later.”
“If I'd wanted you dead five minutes ago, you'd have died five minutes ago.”
“If you want to last more than five minutes as a private investigator, you've got to have the instincts of a chameleon. Gumshoes that stand out in the crowd are as much use to the client as a chocolate chip pan.”