I turned around and headed back to the stairwell, planning to go downstairs and buy a chocolate bar from the vending machine. Maybe it would fall on me and end my misery.

I prefer the word aviatrix. It has more zing to it." "It's very zingy," I agreed.

It's the way you look whenever she mentions her fiance. My cat looks like that before he hacks up a hairball.

The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!

Here's all I know: that the world is uncontrollable. Chaos reigns. That anything and everything might be possible. I won't subscribe to any rational system again. Nothing will bind me.

Honestly," she sighed, "I don't know what kind of life we'll have together, with me always flying off in one direction and you in the other." I smiled. "It's a good thing the world's round," I said.

I believe there is something on this earth that you desire more than anything, and it isn't me.