"Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past."

— Real Live Preacher

"We are all unkind from time to time. We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it’s like chasing clouds."

— Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty