“From things about to disappear I turn away in time. To watch them out of sight, no, I can't do it.”

“He forgot about me almost as soon as I disappeared from sight.”

“I think maybe they are watching, he said. They are watching for a thing that even death cannot undo and if they do not see it they will turn away from us and they will not come back” (210)”

“I needed my daughter to disappear from my sight. If I could have had a wish, I would have wished her away.”

“Why can't fellows be allowed to do what they like when they like and as they like, instead of other fellows sitting on banks and watching them all the time and making remarks and poetry and things about them?”

“Every thing's for sale out here. Anything you want. About the only thing you can't buy is my dignity and self-respect, cause those were the first to go. And I gave them away for free. - excerpt from: freefalling”