I am growing stronger. I am a stone being excavated by the slow passage of water; I am wood charred by a fire.

“The idea—the fact of it, the fact that he even noticed and thought about me for…”

“I wish I could close my eyes and beblown into dust and nothingness, feel all my…”

“Esa palabra manda una corriente directo a través de mi. Muerte, tan final, tan …”

“Kiss Kent. Really kiss him, slow and long, somewhere outside--maybe while it's …”