Every life has a soundtrack.

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else.

She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.

I look for places like me: big, hollow, forgotten by most everyone.

Coop kissed me deeply, drawing my breath from me in a long, sweet ribbon. "Perhaps I haven't mentioned it, but I'm an expert when it comes to first steps." Are you," I said. "Then tell me how." You close your eyes," Coop answered, "and jump.

Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.