Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.

Shouldn't letting go be painless if you've never learned how to hold on?

The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint. - Van Houten

People are different when you can smell them and look up close, you know?

I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor.

I don't think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.

The marks humans leave are too often scars.