“Heaven's last best gift, my ever new delight.”
“I asked my doctor for the best gift ever: Life. Still, he wouldn’t take one for me.”
“Sophia is not my second chance. She is my heavenly gift.”
“The zeal of the stupid in her, Chris began turning pages as if it were the winter solstice gift catalog, earmarking pages and cooing in delight at the new possibilities.”
“The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.”
“This was, I sometimes thought, the last gift my father gave me. And the best: His death stood out as the supreme-o excuse for fucking up, for being a successful fuck-up.”