“...what still blew them all away was time itself, the days and months and the years, oh yes, the years. They went faster than anything man had the capacity to invent, so fast that for a while they fooled you into thinking they were slow, and was there any crueler trick than that?”

“For the young the days go fast and the years go slow; for the old the days go slow and the years go fast.”

“I never know what to tell them. I mean, there's nothing you can say to make a person stop hurting. Half the time, I just feel like telling them the truth. I'd say that for 3 months, you're going to feel worse than you've ever felt and you cope as best you can. And that after 6 months, the pain isn't so bad, but it still hurts more than you think it will. And even after years, you still find yourself thinking about the person you lost and get sad about it. And you still miss them all the time.”

“Oh, no, a leopard blew up and plastered itself all over everything, but hey, animal print was in this year.”

“Thinking about what other people do in bed will age you faster than anything. It makes your heart beat too fast.”

“The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized.”