those awful things are survivable, because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.

“Thank luck and DNA.”

“I tried to imagine him capital-S Somewhere as we prayed, but even then I could …”

“He was gone and did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: tha…”

“and I told myself -- as I've told myself before -- that the body shuts down the…”