“There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.”

“You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages — they haven't ended yet.”

“What’s the opposite of déjà vu, when you see something that hasn’t happened yet?”

“I don’t know—avant verrais?”

“But this is okay. I smile slightly, looking toward
the sky, knowing
there's one thing I still haven't told you: I now believe,
by the way, that
miracles can happen.”

“All the things that happen and seem so important at the time, and yet you forget them, one after another.”

“You will have a story in there… or a character, a place, a poem, a moment in time. When you find it, you will write it. Word after word after word after word.”

“From the moment you said, "Why haven't you kissed me yet" I knew I'd wipe that paint from your lips.”

“What she said was always strange. It had happened long ago. It seemed insignificant. And yet it was something you remembered forever. The words as well as the story. The voice as much as the words.”

“When you fear to fail, you fear something that has not happened yet. You predict your own failure, and by inaction, lock yourself into it.”

“… If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it.”