“But when I saw the price of water I nearly choked. In the last hour it had gone up tenfold. Buying some more information, I learned that there had been an attack, this time at a water treatment facility in Brookhurst. A corporation from a competing Karitzu paid a mercenary firm to blow it up, and raw sewage was now spilling into the aquifer.My God! Did this happen before my shower? What about the toilet? Christ, I may have just blown six hundred caps on a single flush!Hell, for the next few hours I couldn’t even afford to wash my hands.”

“Sarah Aisling: I can’t defend against these charges because I can’t afford a litigator. But I can’t afford a litigator because I’ve been charged.Judge: You should have had insurance against contract suits.Sarah Aisling: I did.Judge: So what’s the problem?Sarah Aisling: They canceled my insurance when I filed the claim.Judge: So sue them!Sarah Aisling: I can’t, I don’t have a litigator.Judge: That’s very cute, Mrs. Aisling.”

“For a moment, I wondered how different my life would have been had they been my parents, but I shook the thought away. I knew my father had done the best he could, and I had no regrets about the way I'd turned out. Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination. Because however it had happened, I'd somehow ended up eating shrimp in a dingy downtown shack with a girl that I already knew I'd never forget.”

“I guess that’s all forever is...Just one long trail of nows. And I guess all you can do is try and live one now at a time without getting too worked up about the last now or the next now.”

“She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat. I think about her all the time. Even now, when I'm sitting here, I think about her. There could never have been another.”

“Kate, I need to use the toilet,” he called through the door.“You’ve just had hours in the sea. Couldn’t you have gone then?”“Mum told me to get out of the water first.”“What, even the ocean?”“It’s wrong to pollute.” He tried to sound serious. ”

“I guess that's all forever is. Just one big long trail of nows. And I guess all you can do is try and live one now at a time without getting too worked up about the last now or the next now.”