“Most people, in the end, really are all on their own.”

“...I sat there in the boat under her stars and her moon gated on all sides by the mountains watching the last bits of her breath float up and away.”

“Ruby’s stories didn’t have morals. They meant one thing in the light and one thing in the dark and another thing entirely when she was wearing sunglasses.”

“I was an echo of her.”

“There was something to be said for the bodiless feeling that came after the cold. Something I would always remember. When you forget how bad it hurts, you feel so free.”

“Sometimes you need more than one way to reach the outside”

“Sure. I would go. Balloon or bus or thumb out onthe highway”