You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.

No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.

He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.

That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.

Maybe a hundred years ago our people should have run away from this place, I said... And then run from the next place and the next place and the place after that? You run once, what makes you think you won't have to run all the rest of your life?... We love moment to moment... Everything changes. One minute we are part of the river, and the next we are joined with the sea.

I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.

Love ambushed you, it lay in wait, dormant for days or years. It was the red thread, the peach stone, the kiss, the forgiveness. It came after you, it escaped you, it was invisible, it was everything.