“Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often.”

“She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.”

“Trauma is a time traveller, an ouroboros that reaches back and devours everything that came before.”

“Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel. This is how you lose her.”

“He whistles. Que viva Colombia. Hands you back the Book. You really should write the cheater's guide to love. You think? I do. It takes a while. You see the tall girl. You go to more doctors...”