“This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you.”

“...the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you. This is half the reason for the cure: It clean-sweeps; it makes the past, and all its pain, distant, like the barest impression on sparkling glass.”

“It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.”

“We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses.”

“If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love.”

“Alex is dead, do you hear me? All of that-what we felt, what it meant- that's done now, okay? Buried. Blown away.”

“The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.”