“Wow" has a reverberation - wowowowowow - and this pulse can soften us, like the electrical massage an acupuncturist directs to your spine or cramped muscle, which feels like a staple gun, but good.”
“I wake up feeling like I spent the last three days in a massage parlor. My muscles are relaxed, and I feel refreshed, like I could climb Mount Everest or build an ark or cure the world of minivans.”
“I guess mercy is a muscle like any other. You got to exercise it, or it just cramp right up.”
“His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him. In seventeen years no one has said my name like that”
“My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.”
“Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?”