It’s just life. You can’t beat life.

People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.

What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it".

For we did makeup. But we didn't forgive each other. And we didn't take steps. And it got to be too late and we saw that each of us had invested too much in being in the right and we walked away and it was a relief.

people who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one

The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.