“And in her smile I see something more beautiful than the stars.”

“I've never seen the stars before.And I never knew they were so beautiful.”

“For a moment, he looks back at me, and his farewell is in his smile. Then he turns to the stars. And he is gone.”

“Amy pulls away and looks into my face. Her pale skin is blotchy red, her eyes are veined and shadowed, and a shiny line of snot trickles from her nose to the top of her lip.She wipes her face and with her arm, smearing tears and mucus. She never looked more BEAUTIFUL to me.”

“I can think of nothing but the stars. It is like a piece of my soul had been lost, empty, and it is now filled with the light of a million stars. They are all that I have ever dreamed of; they are nothing that I ever expected... I will never, never be the same. I have seen stars. Real stars.”

“I have never desired anything more than him in this moment.”

“She holds the brightly colored wires in her hand. "Well, that did the trick," she says, smiling.”