from Dalva

"[Y]ou won't hear the bullet that hits you . . . . "

"[My] address book [is] filling up with dead people." p. 249

"[It] is a good thing we [have] time and clocks or everything might happen at once." p. 255

"[P]eople, cats and horses [like] to imagine threats and react to imaginary dangers."  Amanuensis? p. 283

"If your language was bad, then so was your thinking." p. 285

"[You] were the grace note of my life."  p. 287

"[T]he world is frightening enough without scaring someone on purpose." p. 288