“Let her be with her memories. Better that than be aware of this reality.”
“I hid Mrs. Frozenwater’s body in the ice cube trays in my freezer. Better to keep her there than let her memory thaw out and evaporate. Scotch on the rocks, anyone? ”
“She was afraid to touch the dictionary Oki was even there. Innumerable words reminded her of him. To link whatever she saw and heard with her love was nothing less than to be alive. Her awareness of her body was inseparable from her memory of his embrace.”
“Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.”
“When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.”
“Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.”