The vexing thing about time,” he says, “is that it’s never enough. Perhaps a decade too short, perhaps a moment. But a life always ends too soon.

It is sad to forget. But it's a lonely thing to be forgotten.

Everyone thinks I have a death wish, you know? But I don't want to die - dying is easy. No, I want to live, but getting close to death is the only way to feel alive. And once you do, it makes you realize that everything you were doing before wasn't actually living. It was just making do. Call me crazy, but I think we do the best living when the stakes are high.

She tries not to think about that--she swears sometimes her memory runs forward as well as back, unspooling to show the roads she'll never get to travel

We want to prove things, in life, more than we want to disprove them. We want to believe.

The pressure of 'What are you going to do?' makes everybody feel like they haven't done anything yet.