“The past only exists in the minds of those who choose to recall it.”

“Brennan didn’t look exactly like Raif to Shayla’s eyes, but for someone who didn’t know either man particularly well, they probably looked like twins, separated at birth by twenty or so years.”

“When a dead man knocks on the car window, I think fainting is a reasonable response.”

“Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.”

“There are three types of people in this world. Those who watch it happen, those who let it happen,and those who make it happen. Which are you?”

“Nostalgic memory is a sudden encounter with the thingness of the thing that has been forgotten, not the continuous desire for possessions, whether past, present, or future.”

“Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.”