“The more "normal" the person seems, the sicker she probably is.”

“Ain't nothing wrong with Shug Avery. She just sick. Sicker than anybody I ever seen. She sicker than my mama was when she die. But she more evil than my mama and that keep her alive.”

“She sicker than my mama was when she die. But she more evil than my mama and that keep her alive.”

“As she gets sicker, she fades a little more, until I am afraid one day I will wake up and not be able to see her at all.”

“She seemed pissed about something, but I ignored it. She probably just wasn’t a morning person. Although with that logic, she wasn’t really an afternoon or night person, either. Come to think of it, she was kind of a cranky bitch . . . and I liked it.”

“Sitting here in a bar with an asexual cyborg who is probably the only other normal person on the whole goddamned planet.”