“The advisers and counselors were not, however, analyzing the danger or even the possibility. They were serving only as the custodians of bad memories.”

“Isolation is the worst possible counselor.”

“Oh if life were made of moments
Even now and then a bad one--!
But if life were only moments,
Then you'd never know you had one.”

“When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.”

“Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting”

“Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones.”

“So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together, edge to edge, could they even begin to tell the whole story.”

“The first words I ever heard the alcohol rehab counselor say were 'Good morning, assholes!' With that, I liked him right away.”

“Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger!
Once you were young──now you are even younger.”

“You can see from the tape, the cameras were not on—it was only a mic. And I wonder if they even knew that the mic was on. Because they were kind of, ah, boy talk. And he was led on. Like egg on from the host to say, uh, dirty and bad stuff.”