No," I said. And maybe it was only because Alaska couldn't hit the brakes and I couldn't hit the accelerator.

“Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so …”

“The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. The living, th…”

“Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is…”

“I cannot stop thinking that she is dead, and I cannot stop thinking that she ca…”