The engagement ring is an emerald, and the dim light from the window is refracted green and white in it. The rings are silver, and they need cleaning. They need wearing, and I know just the girl to wear them.

...she could express her soul with that voice, whenver I listened to her I felt my life meant more than mere biology...she could really hear, she understood structure and she could analyze exactly what it was about a piece of music that had to be rendered just so...she was a very emotional person, Annette. She brought that out in other people. After she died I don't think I ever really felt anything again.

You're the oddest person I've ever met, you couldn't get rid of me if you tried.

What are you doing?" Nothing. Breaking and entering. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

Clare seems so pleased with the idea of me as a pirate that she forgets that I am Stranger Danger.

...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath.

one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.