Just ask how I'm feeling, I want to say. Just ask and I may tell you. But no one does.

Do I have to be here to belong to you?' Froi asked. 'Can't I belong to you wherever I am?

She asked me what type of contraceptive I use. Underwear. Keeping it on prevents pregnancy.

I didn't realize until those few days how much a hug meant. To have someone hold you could be the greatest medicine of all.

When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life. That she had wanted to be dead all those years while her brother had been alive. That had been her sin. And this was her penance. Wanting to live when everyone else seemed dead.

It's my birthday today. I'm not 17 anymore. The 17 Janis Ian sang about where one learns the truth. But what she failed to mention is that you keep on learning truths after 17 and I want to keep on learning truths till the day I die.

He knows bad days. Bad days take him completely by surprise. They make him not trust the good days because it's likely something is lurking twenty-four hours away.