He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had

Every man is the hero of his own song.

People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then?

Never trust people that like to call things by initials, that's my philosophy.

When it falls on your head, then you are knowing it is a rock.

Our lives aren't even about doing real things most of the time. We think and talk about people we've never met, pretend to visit places we've never actually been to, discuss things that are just names as though they were as real as rocks or animals or something. Information Age - Hell it's the Imagination Age. We're living in our own minds. No, she decided as the plane began its steep descent, really we're living in other people's minds.

She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.