Memorial was so functional. It was a storage facility. A prematorium.

“I nodded. I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked …”

“I wanted..." I said."I know," he said. "I know. Apparently the world is not a w…”

“I knew that time would now pass for me differently than it would for him—that I…”

“The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory.”