“None on the Court be well disposed to the hearing of reason,I'm afraid. They are gripped with fear for their own reputations.”

“In his voice resonated the timbre of a man who thinks he has convinced himself of an idea, but masks his own doubt by laboring to persuade others.”

“...You can have this whole entire life, with all your opinions, your loves, your fears. Eventually those parts of you disappear. And then the people who could remember those parts of you disappear, and before long, all that's left is your name in some ledger. This...person -- she had a favorite food. She had friends and people she disliked. We don't even know how she died...I guess that's why I like preservation better than history. In preservation I feel like I can keep some of it from slipping away.”

“Mentally Connie gathered her strands of thinking into thick handfuls, trying to braid them into a coherent whole.”

“Only by being present can you be happy. Too much attention to the past and the future takes the now away. And once it's gone, you never get it back.”

“In this world, everyone is friends with everyone else. In a way.”

“She slipped into this rhythm without thinking about it, like a clock that moved its hands without knowing why.”