Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess." - Ch. 5

You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who’s saved? Who’s not?

My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing Bing, for being so foolish as to think she could use faith to change fate.

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

And I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.

Why do you think you are missing something you never had?

Dementia was like a truth serum.