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“You never know when a time is the last time, because if you did you could never go on with life.”

“Let’s go for a ride, big guy . . . let’s cruise.”

“It was bad from the start. And it got worse in a hurry.”

“This is the story of a lover’s triangle, I suppose you’d say—Arnie Cunningham, Leigh Cabot, and, of course, Christine.”

“That which glitters is not always gold; but what I am going to tell, is true.”

“I can see the devil in people. I can see the devil in you.”

“Memories are a lot tougher than you might think. Just like the hearts that hold them.”

“How does it feel to remember everything? To have everything that the rest of us have lost saved up in your heart?”

“Attacks by man-eating tigers, though rare, are exceedingly traumatic, in almost every sense of the word.”

“There are so many fates worse than death.”

“I may not know a lot of life, but I know a lot of death.”

“Even if I left the room forever, even if I could, I would never come out all the way.”

“It’s your ride. Hang on.”

“What the hell had been the meaning of it all?”

“To put off death, perhaps forever. This offer had set a steady process of dehumanization in motion.”

“While there might be nothing noble about dying, there could be something noble about death.”

“At a certain point, and sooner than you’d guess, it ceases to matter how far you go.”

“Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.”

“Few of us want to die. But death provides our lives with structure. As an end point, death gives meaning and significance to time. If time becomes insignificant because our lives are endless, our existence surrenders its value. We become adrift in time.”

“Humans are tough organisms. So seldom do we wave the white flag, even when we ought to.”

“This isn’t our movie. This isn’t our story. It’s theirs.”

“A fleeting thought presents as a whispered question, a question not necessarily in search of an answer but instead posed to underscore disbelief at a suddenly unassailable truth: Is this the end?”

“This is not a fairy tale. This is a song.”

“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not of the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”

“A man is just a woman’s strategy for making other women.”

“I think this is what God must look like: an egg. The life of the moon may not be on the surface, but inside. The egg is glowing now, as if it had an energy of its own. To look at the egg gives me intense pleasure. The sun goes and the egg fades.”

“Passive is dangerous. Passive means we lose.”

“Our culture is so obsessed with what’s new, we destroy the past and pretend it never happened.”

“Life or death - light or dark; there was nothing in between.”