“I could be irksome when I put my left ventricle into it.”
“Hey, as you leave, Qhuinn wanted to say, will you do me a favor? I think my left ventricle is on the floor, so don't step on it as you pull out? Thanks. Great.”
“I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.”
“I didn't put in my diaphragm' I mumbled when we were through.You stirred, 'Is it dangerous?''It's very dangerous,' I said.Indeed, just about any stranger could have turned up nine months later. We might as well have left the door unlocked.”
“My custom has always been to ponder grief; that is, to follow it through ventricle and aorta to find its lurking places.”
“Well, for instance, when I left her today, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wings were strong, she said.”