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41 " I worry there's nothing left of the person I was supposed to be, beyond the pain. Sometimes I can't separate myself from it. I think about how when I'm gone, the pain will be gone, too. We'll have canceled each other out. Maybe it will be like I was never here at all. "
― Tracy Guzeman , The Gravity of Birds
42 " The best way to slow the march of time, Denny, perhaps the only way, is to throw something unexpected in its path. "
43 " I was born old. My mother told me once that I looked like a grumpy old man from the moment I was born - wrinkled, pruney face, rheumy eyes. You've heard of the expression an old soul? I was born with a head full of someone else's failed dreams and a heart full of someone else's memories. "
44 " Time passes so slowly and then suddenly it doesn’t. At which point one becomes aware of how much of it’s been squandered. "
45 " His days swelled with the monotony of hours, piling up in colossal heaps before and after him, the used the same as the new. "