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“You know too much now. You now know that everything that once seemed so definitive to you, up until the day you set foot in my woods, is just a series of arbitrary limits. Gravity. The sunrise. Time itself. The rest of the universe doesn’t play by any of Earth’s rules.”

“The last time you see a person is the thing you remember best about them.”

“We’ll all be perfect fucking strangers. I’ve wanted to go home for so long, Cisco. But now I know home isn’t gonna be anything I recognize.”

“He could forge memories like this now. He could put himself back in his house and daydream about Teresa and the children and make those daydreams feel like real remnants of his past.”

“He would have to be like a reporter dropped into a war zone, in a place to observe it, but not of it.”

“The coroner grabbed a scalpel.
“What are you doing?” Ben asked him.
“Let’s free up some space.”
“Get away from me. . . .”
“Let’s see if we can get all that sadness out of you.”

…I’d let him…

“The old man could distort reality so easily.”

“Yeah, well thinking about them hurts, too.”
“Maybe that’s a better kind of pain.”
“Maybe.”

“Just that one punch was all the man needed to put the menace inside Ben and leave it there. Anytime he parked his car after that, and anytime he went to an airport, he could feel it. Menace could do that to you. Menace could own you.”