...all of our laments could not add a single second to her l... - Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

"I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret."

"You can still be cool when you’re dead. In fact, it’s much easier, because you aren’t getting old and fat and losing your hair."

"It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays."

"I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room"

"Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment."