11 Quotes by Derek B. Miller

it is all clearer now than it was then. Rhea would say it is the vivid fabrications of an ageing mind. More likely, though, it is the clarity that comes from ageing - from the natural process of releasing the mind from imagined futures, and allow the present and paste to take their rightful place at the centre of our attention. The past is palpable to Sheldon now, in the way the future is to the young. It is either a brief curse or a gift before oblivion.

You know the Norwegian police? They're a bunch of pussies. They don't carry guns, just like the English. But they stay after things for years and years, nagging and nagging. They're like herpes. You think you're rid of them, and then, when you're a little stressed out, boom! In the end they catch all the killers. They exhaust their prey into submission.

We actually do have a lot of guns. There's a lot of hunting in Norway. But there's almost no gun violence.""Why do you think that is?""On a fundamental level," says Sigrid, "I think it's because we don't want to shoot each other.""That could be our problem right there," says Melinda

Don’t get old,” he says to Paul. “If Peter Pan shows up, just go.

Most things are both true and absurd.

It is summer and luminous.

Without a future, the mind turned back in on itself. That’s not dementia. One might even say it’s the only rational response to the inevitable.

Only the educated stop to look for words – having enough to occasionally misplace them.

He expresses himself not in a torrent of words and ideas and disruptions, revelations and setbacks, but through an ever-expanding capacity to face what comes next.