"A snapshot of what?"
"Of everything, everywhere! There‘s no time in a picture, right? It‘s the jumping, from one diamond to the next, that we call time, but like I said, time doesn‘t really exist. Like that girl just said, a diamond is a moment, and all the diamonds on the ring are happening at the same time. It‘s like having a drawer full of pictures."
"On the ring," I said.
"Yes! All the diamonds exist at once!" He looked triumphant. "So if you jump backward, you are at that moment--you are in that picture-and you always were there, you always will be there, even if you don‘t know it yet."
I didn‘t understand a word of it. And I couldn‘t feel my feet. "Forget it," I said. "The whole thing is making me crazy."
He nodded like he felt sorry for me and my stupid brain. - P104