If she were gone I would be nothing. You should think better of yourself than to settle for that.

People don’t pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to

The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.

How are you managing to keep everyone from aging?” Celia asks after a while. “Very carefully,” Marco answers.

I think looking forward will be better than looking back.

And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of others read in archaic books with crackling spines.

I would have written you, myself, if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A sea of ink would not be enough.' 'But you built me dreams instead.