And it's true. It's so true. All those years of loving Zik because he never asked about Eve... I never realized, I never understood. It was his job as my best friend not to ask. But it was my job as his best friend to tell him without being asked.

The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.

You don’t break up with someone just because of an argument, Josh. At least, I don’t.

What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?...The term was faith.

And I think of nothing. I think of nothing but Rachel. What happens next is pure magic, and is for us and us alone.

Anger and hatred, when left unfed, bleed away like air from a punctured tire, over time and days and years. Forgiveness is stealth.

And what? Accidentally cuts off three fingers postmortem? 'Oops, oh, no, my girlfriend just died! Clumsy me, in trying to perform CPR, I chopped off some fingers! Guess I'll just take them with me.... Oh, darn, where did that middle finger go?