“Music was a chain forged half of silences and half of sound, love was nothing without longing and loss, and were time not to have at its end the absence of time, and the absence of time not to have been preceded by time, neither would be of any consequence.”
“What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.”
“There's a formula for how long it takes to get over someone, that it's half as long as the time you've been together.”
“We were once getting married. And I have loved you all this time- a century and a half. -Jem”
“Changes is the mother of time. Absence of changes makes no time.”
“A manmade waterfall that was half man, half waterfall would have a hard time going upstairs. Thank God for waterproof elevators!”