Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way other than just getting older.

There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you've misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world.

What we need,' Henry says, 'is a fresh start. A blank slate. Let's call her Tabula Rasa.

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

Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust.

I still feel like a castaway, th elast of a once numerous species. It was as though Robinson Crusoe discovered the telltale footprint on the beach and then realized that it was his own. Myself, small as a leaf, thin as water, begins to cry.

Is it sad to fancy David Tennant when you're dead?