How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"It won't work," Mr. Bentley continued, sipping his tea. "No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now. Time hypnotizes. When you're nine, you think you've always been nine years old and will always be. When you're thirty, it seems you've always been balanced there on that bright rim of middle life. And then when you turn seventy, you are always and forever seventy. You're in the present, you're trapped in a young now or an old now, but there is no other now to be seen." (15.115)
Ah, Mr. Bentley's ghost, we love how unsentimental you are. You're probably the kind of dude who tossed your baby teeth in the garbage rather than wait for that quarter from the tooth fairy.
Quote #5
"In the morning," she said to it, "I will do something final about this, and settle down to being only me, and nobody else from any other year. Yes, that's what I'll do." (15.124)
Interestingly enough, Mrs. Bentley's talking to her dead husband by speaking to an object she's kept around to remind her of him—his cane. How might losing the objects she associates with him affect her ability to remember him clearly?
Quote #6
"A Time Machine!" panted Charlie Woodman, pacing him. "Mother's, scout's, Injun's honor!"
"Travels in the past and future?" John Huff asked, easily circling them.
"Only in the past, but you can't have everything. Here we are." (17.2-4)
This is how you made promises to your friends in the days when it wasn't politically incorrect to play cowboys and Indians.