“I did not need to know if he could love me.I needed to know if he could need me.”

“We tried so hard. We were always trying to help each other. But not because we were helpless. He needed to get things for me, just as I needed to get things for him. It gave us purpose. Sometimes I would ask him for something that I did not even want, just to let him get it for me. We spent our days trying to help each other help each other. I would get his slippers. He would make my tea. I would turn up the heat so he could turn up the air conditioner so I could turn up the heat.”

“I said, 'I need to know how he died.'He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?'So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm always inventing.”

“I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.”

“I had no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.”

“He was sculpting me. He was trying to make me so he could fall in love with me ..”

“there were so many different ways to die, and I just need to know which was his.”