Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.

Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam. It seeped into my legs, it pooled in my heart.

it's amazing what you can get used to.

Remember that day you said you loved me? Remember that? See, you could do that because you're basically a sane person, who grew up in a loving, sane family. You could take a risk like that. But in my family we didn't go around saying we loved each other. We went around screaming at each other. So what do I do, when you say you love me? I go and undermine it.

Chunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back.

There have been hermaphrodites around forever, Cal. Forever. Plato said that the original human being was a hermaphrodite. Did you know that? The original person was two halves, one male, one female. Then these got separated. That's why everybody's always searching for their other half. Except for us. We've got both halves already.

I'm the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you to read it from the beginning to get to the end, which is my arrival.