I'm at a loss because I am in love with a man who is standing before me with no memories of me at all. (Time Traveler's Wife)

I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going. - Henry deTamble

I look at him, look at the book, remember, this book, this moment, the first book I ever loved

The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances.

I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always.

And Clare, always Clare.

I feel moderately bad about this whole thing. On the one hand, I am providing myself with urgently required survival skills. Other lessons in this series include Shoplifting, Beating People Up, Picking Locks, Climbing Trees, Driving, Housebreaking, Dumpster Diving, and How to Use Oddball Things like Venetian Blinds and Garbage Can Lids as Weapons. On the other hand, I’m corrupting my poor innocent little self. I sigh. Somebody’s got to do it.