“I'm a survivor, " I said. But I didn't think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary.”
“I didn't think much about that statement then. But later I would-I still do. I think about it and think about it until I think I'm going crazy.”
“I'm not sure I would label it a 'survivor,'" said Iko, her sensor darkening with disgust. "It looks more like a rotting pumpkin.”
“I didn't think so much of him at first. But now I get it: he's everything that I'm not.”
“There was a silence. 'You didn't as,' said Jerott at length. 'But I would have forgone even the body for the sake of the mind. And I would have claimed neither body nor mind, had I discovered a soul.”
“I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world.”