my heart would swell without warning, and tremble, and lurch with a stab of pain. I would try clamping my eyes shut and gritting my teeth, and waiting for it to pass. And it would pass -- but slowly, taking its own time, and leaving a dull ache behind.

“Nobody chooses to evolve. It's like floods and avalanches and earthquakes. You …”

“The dead will always be dead, but we have to go on living.”

“I clicked the gate shut and slipped down the alley. Through one fence after ano…”

“Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality,…”