When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot.

No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.

Carmen hated the 'life is too short" rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because "life is too short not to," you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.

She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but long before that. It was in Greece that she'd realized those parts had left her and were not coming back.

Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.

But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so.

He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.