“No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.”

“The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.”

“Something passes between us that I'm pretty sure both of us can feel, even though neither one of us says anything. It's not even any kind of attraction, even though I've been feeling that on and off all night. This is something different.We have a secret now. A secret from Ava.”

“It's strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart--even when I'm sure I will.”

“Ugliness is beautifulness.The word ugly does not exist, but the ones that are blind to see the beauty of things are the ones who make the word ugly exist.nothing is ugly but for the blind it is”

“Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on end may pass blindingly in a quick series of chords, open-shut, together-apart; and then a single melancholy week may seem like a year's pining, one long unfolding note.”