“I kind of feel like making love to you,' she says. 'I mean i want to make up for all of that lost time.' She runs her fingers down my chest all sexy and shit. I chuckle. 'There's no such thing as lost time, Jess. The only thing that is real is the present. Now is all we have—and even now is almost over.”
“You battle ignorance by battling illiteracy, and battle illiteracy by battling ignorance.”
“Mary decided that flying was a lot like reading: they both made a body feel free as a bird.”
“The illiterate behavior casts doubt on our higher education.”
“But doth must suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange.”
“...as if I didn't know that holding something too tightly could damage it irrevocably.”
“I felt that pressure of time that is perhaps the surest indication we have left childhood behind.”