“Most of them had not understood Blackberry's discovery of the raft and at once forgot it.”
“Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.”
“The iron did not remember the blood it had once moved within, the phosphorous had forgot the savage brain.”
“. . .how he had loved Christine more than he had understood, that sometimes one forgot what it meant, really, to love, the way the tide of a marriage advances and retreats, . .”
“For me, nature is something you watch on the Discovery Channel, or on the evening news -- as you learn how much more of it's been savaged to make way for the Blackberry realm that is my home”
“Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.”