“If he survived Roaming Rock, he kept telling himself, death would have lost its sting.”
“...he would have been lost except he started out lost and when you start out completely lost, it's hard to get loster.”
“His heart beat so rapidly it might burst; he kept telling himself everything was fine so long as he remained a giraffe.”
“It would be like The Rock versus Seth Green. Now, tell me who he is”
“Winslow hurled stones at the little tree. Wrung its trunk as if it were a throat. He flailed and throttled the sapling to the ground. Winslow hugged its limbs and tried to weep, but was, at last, dry of tears. Under a pale moon, Winslow knew he no longer belonged to the world of men and would forever roam the woods as a lost son of the civil.”
“And he would never have instructed her to tell his past self such a story and expected himself to believe it.”