There are many answers, none of them right, but some of them most definitely wrong.

The important thing was that we were being polite and not saying all the things that were making us unhappy, which was the only way we knew how to love each other.

Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation.

Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!

She sat back on her heels and nodded. The thought experiment she proposed was certainly odd, but her point was simple. Everything in the universe was constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up and truly live our lives. That’s what it means to be a time being, old Jiko told me, and then she snapped her crooked fingers again. And just like that, you die.

language is magical - it's a form of conjuring. If you do it convincingly, readers will follow you.

Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.