It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember.

For nothing is more fulfilling than love itself

Savannah sometimes sounded a lot like the little voice that had taken up residence in my head but never bothered paying rent, and right now it whispered that if I felt guilty, maybe I was doing something wrong.

The pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart.

If you're a bird... I'm a bird.

I’ve been doing this a long time, and I’ve come to learn that predictions don’t mean much. Too much lies outside the realm of medical knowledge. A lot of what happens next comes down to you and your specific genetics, your attitude. No, there’s nothing we can do to stop the inevitable, but that’s not the point. The point is that you should try to make the most of the time you have left.

Then we'll find a way to work through all this together because I know I want to spend the rest of my life with you.