“It is important to keep old things, he insisted, because it was through them alone that new things could be judged.”

“Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them, Ethan.”

“Truth was funny, because it was an insistent thing, maybe as powerful and insistent as some force of nature, the push of water or wind. You could keep it out only so long, but it had its own will and its own needs, and maybe you could keep it at bay with lies, but not for long, not for always.”

“The thing about new things is you feel new when you buy them, you feel as though you are somebody different because you own something different. We are our possessions, you know. There are people who get addicted to buying new stuff. Things. Piles and piles of things. But the new things become old things so quickly. We need new things to replace the old things.”

“...old age insisted on revealing things. Yanking away crutches when we needed them most.”

“There is one thing better than making a new friend,and that is keeping a old one.”