Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.

It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

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

Remember what I've told you. Remember me.

I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.

Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.