“He had every gift but the gift of years”
“They said every year was a gift, not a guarantee, and ought to be celebrated accordingly.”
“He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.”
“Every person on earth has a gift," he began. "In some, the gift manifests itselfspontaneously; others have to work to discover what it is.”
“A clone would make a great birthday gift, because it’s the only gift that keeps on giving. At least it’d better give me a birthday present every year. It owes its life to me.”
“A fear Paul had transformed all these years, like a gifted alchemist, into anger and rebellion.”