Without pain we wouldn't know joy

“I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its bu…”

“I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer…”

“And then I was asleep. That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep, that s…”

“I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you …”