“Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.”

“There was no easy switch that she could flip to stem the flow of feelings, no way to drain the memories that pooled like acid in her stomach because her heart no longer knew what to do with them.”

“...your deeds are like your monuments. Built with memories instead of stone.”

“Perimeter is not meaning, but it changes meaning,/as wit increases distance, and compassion erodes it.”

“At some point after Asha went to college, the distance between her and Krishnan grew. By the time their daughter left for India, they were too far apart. It was as if they stood on opposite sides of a lake, neither of them having the ability to cross the distance between. The angry words they hurled fell like stones to the bottom of the water, leaving ripples of sadness on the surface.”

“It's like a memorial to Atlantis or Lyonesse: these are the stone buoys that mark a drowned world.”