“As the warm air blew in the car, simple snapshots of the life they'd lived together surfaced in his mind; but as always, those images led inexorably to their final day together.”
“That day, engrossed together in the fate of the child, he met her mind to mind and fell in love with her, with every grain of his spirit and cell of his body; with the essential finality of death.”
“No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.”
“All he knew was that they fit somehow, and that he felt as if he spent most of his life traveling a path that led inexorably to her.”
“Their plan had been very simple: to stay together for the rest of their lives. ”
“I kissed my fingers,held my palm flat beside my mouth and blew it into the air that surrounded her memory. I closed my eyes, thinking this was one of those moments you see in movies or read about in books where everything comes together.”