You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.

“Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one inv…”

“So we couldn't mingle with them, but we could eavesdrop. We got our knowledge t…”

“I think of bad news as a huge bird, with the wings of a crow and the face of my…”

“He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation.”