“I whispered in God’s ear. “I have faith.”“That’s good, I almost thought I had lost my touch.”

“God made me feel like I was a piece of his existence, my dad made me feel like I was his existence.”

“I saw her insides.”“Her insides? She got hurt?”“Ew, no. That would have been cool though. I mean her insides, like what she was thinking on the inside of her brain.”

“Lock yourself in here and if you hearanything. Shoot. I don’t care if you think God himself is about to waltz through that door, shoot him toSwiss cheese--he’ll survive.”

“Ok then do you have any further questions before you head back, like the meaning of life, why the sky is blue, and so on?”“Sure. Why on Earth did you give my sis a set of wings?”

“I thought about my mother, and the words she said to me almost a lifetime ago. That’s when it clicked: she had asked me not to settle, to fight for the person I loved, and for the first time, I did what she expected of me. I had finally lived up to who she wanted me to be.”

“I thought I had my life mapped out, thought I had it together. Then you came along and flipped my world on its head. You make me want things I never knew I needed.”