1. “If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.”
2. “For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo.”
3. “I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.”
4. “Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with difference. We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.”
5. “how could you describe a hill and snow to someone who had never felt height or wind or that feathery, magical cold?”
