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"If she did ask, I would say it was grief. The deepest grief. I know she would accept that as an answer. No one knows what's inside grief.

Anything at all can be there."

"His smile is a constellation. His smile is a movie and I'm in the dark, dreaming."

"Death is inevitable and the world is full of murder, Tom says, tenderly brushing a lock of hair from my eyes."

"There's a whiteness, isn't there? I whispered. Brightness, I meant to say. Not a whiteness, I told myself, call it a Brightness."

"Really very like a merman if he weren't wearing jean shorts. What is he doing out of the sea?"

"As I run, I want to laugh. Running for a treatment. Sort of defeats the purpose of the relaxation element, doesn't it? But I run with her, the shoes beating harder and faster in my hands."

"The hairy wings of my soul beat excitedly. How the light she emits warms me. I could sleep by it like a fire."

I don't know, Mother, I said. Put me in a sack. Drown me. I'm hopeless. And she'd frown as I smiled.

"Inside me, something opens its jaws."