“Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.”

“...memory can restore to life everything except smells, although nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.”

“You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own.”

“There is nothing so banal in the world,' said Ada 'than pitching stones at a hawfinch.”

“Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive: its demands would be balanced by those of the future.”

“One is always at home in one's past...”

“I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.”