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“Welcome to the club, here’s your new uniform. In your folder, you’ll find a guidelines that will lay out the steps of trauma and recovery, which may take your entire lifetime.”

“They were a force, barricading me, even making me laugh. They could not undo what was done, but they could record it, photograph every millimeter of it, seal it into bags, force someone to look. “

P21- Then I get up and say, ‘I want to live...’

P10- By the end, if you are still alive, you are breathing through a tube in a hole in your throat, while your soul, perfectly awake, is imprisoned inside a limp husk, perhaps able to blink, or cluck a tongue, like something from a science fiction movie, the man frozen inside his own flesh.

P9- ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax.

P4- when he smiles it’s as if you’d just told him the first joke on earth.

Many leap headlong, temped by a tale of who they might be... Never to find that other shore.