The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down.

And for a moment―for a split second―everything else falls away, the whole pattern and order of my life, and a huge joy crests in my chest. I am no one, and I owe nothing to anybody, and my life is my own.

People need other people to feel things for them," she said. "It gets lonely to feel things all by yourself.

Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't read anymore.

An eye for an eye." "And the whole world goes blind," Coral puts in quietly.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

Of all the systems of the body - neurological, cognitive, special, sensory - the cardiological system is the most sensitive and easily disturbed. The role of society must be to shelter these systems from infection and decay, or else the future of the human race is at stake. Like a summer fruit that is protected from insect invasion, bruising, and rot by the whole mechanism of modern farming; so must we protect the heart.