“I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.”

“Only when I hold onto nothing can I be the best, only then can I be what they expect me to be.”

“I imagine giving someone such a gift and then having it returned. Parents are always giving things that are not taken.”

“I wonder if death will always taste this good”

“My mother looks at me with love and understanding, and I realize: she knows what my father did. She knows what I want. She knows and even though she would not destroy a tissue sample or love someone who is not her Match, she still loves us, even though we have done those things.”

“But he is as we all are: light as air, transient as wisps of cloud before the sun, beautiful and fleeting, and if I ever did truly have hold of him, that has ended now.”

“I wonder if there have been other errors.”