“The die cast, I really was living out of a suitcase, feeling as though I had fallen off the grid.”

“You seem so far away though you are standing near.You made me feel alive, but something died I fear.I really tried to make it out, I wish I understood.What happened to our love, it used to be so good.”

“For so long I have lived on the edge of an invisible world. Sometimes I feel like the scattered debris left over after the personality has fallen out of the sky.”

“I had to cast out a good many lines, though, before I got what I wanted, and when I landed the fish I did not for a moment suppose it was my fish. But I listened to what I was told out of a constitutional liking for useless information, and I found myself in possession of a very curious story, though, as I imagined, not the story I was looking for.”

“Truth was, I didn't really want to die today. I was in the middle of a really good book, and being alive had always worked out for me. . .”

“The blankets had fallen off and I stared down at her white back, the shoulder blades sticking out as if they wanted to grow into wings, poke through that skin. Little blades. She was helpless.”