“If you remembered somebody was as real as yourself, how could you kill anybody?”
“How could you love somebody who had killed you?”
“Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help.”
“The hero was the sort of character you could feel yourself falling in love with, no matter how much you tried to convince yourself that he wasn't real”
“Nobody asks anybody to be somebody. Man for himself and be yourself, buddy!”
“Remembering backward is the easy thing. If you could remember forward, you could save yourself...”