“Somewhere in the endless spinning of eternity that one, tiny, fraction of a second where our lips met is lost forever.”

“The sensation felt like spinning too fast on a merry-go-round. Each fraction of a second her eyes focused on a new face in a crowd. Within seconds the face was gone, whisked to a blur, replaced by another face that would just as soon be lost.”

“Every picture ever taken is a fraction of a second, frozen in time forever.”

“I realize that this is the way the world works. If I could stop the spin, stop the rotation, I would have done so long ago. I would have stopped it the first moment that Catcher's lips met mine under the moon in the amusement park. I would have held us in that eternity forever. But of course everything presses forward, even as we dig our feet against the reality of it all. One even tumbles from the next out of our control and we are dragged along, helpless.”

“The moment our lips met, I knew with pure and piercing certainty that I would have waited for him forever.”

“... history is forever unfinished, forever in process; endless because our needs are endless.”