“I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.”

“I had a PET scan scheduled in a couple weeks. If something was wrong, I'd find out soon enough. Nothing to be gained by worrying between now and then.And yet still I worried. I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.”

“I'm a better person when I'm with you. I don't want to stop being that person. I don't want you to go”

“I personally like being unique. I like being my own person with my own style and my own opinions and my own toothbrush.”

“I began by acting like the person I wanted to be, and eventually I became that person.”

“Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot worse than being hungry for any dinner, yet it was like that. I want--I want--I want--was all that she could think about--but just what this real want was she did no know.”