“I gripped against her like she was metal and I was all full of lightning, charged up and jagged and of that moment alone.”

“I felt naked beneath the wildness of her eyes. I felt alive. Unknown. And I knew then that the world contained so many things I would never understand.”

“I knew it was a day of endings, one way or another.”

“You couldn't make up something that looked so right.”

“And I howled at that swarm and the crops and the sky, and the stars should have quit because there weren't no reason to be shining.”

“You take what you can get, I reckon. You take what you can get.”

“I was reading that lightning is a negative charge that comes from the friction that clouds carry. And since opposites attract, I would like to think that he was so positive the moment that he died, so happy, he pulled that bolt right out of the sky. I don’t know if that’s possible, but that’s what I believe.”