She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.

We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for boroughs and for cities, a pocket that could hold the universe.

It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.

Chickens can do many things, but they cannot make sophisticated deals with humans.

We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. The books in my father's shed were sighing. The sheets were rising and falling around me with Anna's breathing. I thought about waking her. but it was unnecessary. There would be other nights. And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to her. Here is the point of everything I have been trying to tell you... It's always necessary. I love you.

It is unrealistic to think you can have an inflexible identity that never has to give or take or make compromises.

I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?