Status Updates From The Tusks of Extinction

(My version has 101 pages--almost half of the one listed in Goodreads---and tiny print :)

"He was afraid to lose this memory. He returned to it often, like a person checking their pockets to make sure their keys were still there" (35-36).

"Skills were rays pointing outward. They became line segments when you discovered where they led" (35).

"And then his mother in the hospital , thin as if she were withdrawing into her own skeleton---thin as if her bones were breating in her flesh and consuming it" (9).