“So now we are young still but a better sort of young.”

“And now I want to get yesterday down while I still have the awful taste of it”

“Thinks that it is a poor sort of life that has not known expectation, the pleasure of savoring ahead. So enjoy it while you have it, he tells himself.”

“You have this comet trail of your own lived life, sparks from which arrive in the head all the time, whether you want them or not - life has been lived but it is still all going on, in the mind for better and for worse.”

“It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.”

“Far as I'm concerned, they're all still here, like a lot of dear little ghosts.”

“He felt marvellously conscious of the moment, of here and now, of this day.”