“Poor kid-- all she’d wanted to do was get her teeth fixed. ”

“She’d wanted to completely shave her head: I don’t want long hair, I don’t want short hair, I don’t want hair at all, and I don’t want to be a girl or a boy, I want to be a yellow and orange leaf some little kid picks up and pastes in his scrapbook.”

“Please do not—” Before he could argue with her any more to stay or persuade her he’d fix the situation, she’d picked up her bag and stalked out the door. He mumbled, “Leave me.”Lex was gone.”

“But it seems she’d wanted children after all, because when she was told she’d been accidentally sterilized she could feel all the light leaking out of her.”

“After all,how long could it take to fix a garbage disposal? He could have built her a freaking new one by now. With his teeth.”

“Teeth could befixed, the past couldn't be. He wondered if memories could be. He wanted to fix his memories.”