I feel like I might start crying and that I'm going to cry pee.

No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

When we think of death, we often imagine it as happening in degrees: We think of a sick person becoming less and less alive until finally they are gone.

I pointed at the little kids goading each other to jump from rib cage to shoulder and Gus answered just loud enough for me to hear over the din, 'Last time, I imagined myself as the kid. This time, the skeleton.

Even with everything broken and decided inside her she couldn't quite allow herself to disappear for good.

But what could I lose by continuing that had not already been lost?

In those fifty, the Old Man made me take religion seriously. I'd never been religious, but he told us that religion is important whether or not we believed in one, the same way that historical events are important whether or not you personally lived through them.