Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean—make sure they know what they mean! - John Irving

… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.

Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.

"Nostalgia!" Miss Frost cried. "You´re nostalgic!" She repeated. "Just how old are you, William?" She asked.

"Seventeen, " I told her.

"Seventeen!" Miss Frost cried, as if she'd been stabbed. "Well, William Abbott, if you're nostalgic at seventeen, maybe you are going to be a writer!"