We all die. It's just a question of when and how horrible it's going to be.

In that moment, there was no place for doubt. I was sitting with the supreme being. I had always sat beside her. She was inside of me.

The best art always comes unbidden.

My whole life had been an uninterrupted act of loving him.

I would look up at the moon and see that it was not the smooth orb we had all believed, but a pitted and scarred world with no air.

I'm Paige," I whispered. He was serious, for once. "Are you the first page, or the last?" I didn't answer, not right then.

We all die. It's just a question of when and how horrible it's going to be.