...and we sat like that, one creature in two bodies, for a long time, until I forgot what I'd been upset about and I was myself again.

“I couldn't imagine anyone ever reading a book enough to make it look like that.…”

“I smiled at the stacks, inhaling again. Hundreds of thousands of pages that had…”

“a life is measured by moments like these”

“I saw her face then, and I recognized something of myself in her expression. He…”