And if Time is anything akin to God, I suppose that Memory must be the Devil.

I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have.

That's for calling your father a fool. It may be true, but it's disrespectful. Brian Fraser to teenage Jamie

Then the room relaxed in cheers and babbling, and she turned in his arms to kiss him hard and cling to him, and he thought perhaps it didn't matter that they faced in opposite directions - so long as they faced each other.' Roger Wakefield {Drums Of Autumn}

But just then, for that fraction of time, it seems as though all things are possible. You can look across the limitations of your own life, and see that they are really nothing. In that moment when time stops, it is as though you know you could undertake any venture, complete it and come back to yourself, to find the world unchanged, and everything just as you left it a moment before. And it's as though knowing that everything is possible, suddenly nothing is necessary.

Tell him I hate him to his guts and the marrow of his bones!

He gave you to me," she said, so low I could hardly hear her. "Now I have to give you back to him, Mama.