“Even before he was twenty, Gus had dwelt in memory, in a less complicated time but, ultimately, memory had become for him not a corridor, but a catacomb.”

“Memory gallops, then checks up and veers unexpectedly; to memory, the order of occurrence is arbitrary. Winkler was still on an airplane, hurtling north, but he was also pushing farther back, sinking deeper into the overlaps, to the years before he even had a daughter, before he had even dreamed of the woman who would become his wife.”

“Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.”

“I didnt tell him I'd thought of him every day. That even when every other memory had faded, he never left. - Nikki”

“He had no thought of how it was before he came to the farm. His memory of those times was like a house where no one lives and the furniture has rotten away.”

“He had no thought og how it was before he came to the farm. His memory of those times was like a house where no one lives and the furniture has rotten away.”