All My Friends Are Fictional’s Reviews > The Seaplane on Final Approach > Status Update

„There are a couple of situations that are ideal for touring your memories: the quiet three minutes after takeoff on a commercial flight, and when you're trying to fall asleep. The first makes you keenly aware of the possibility of a quick death, and the other makes you aware of the likelihood of one that comes slowly.“

„What morphine was like was this: it was like having a snow day in middle school, …and you're relieved, because you're growing so hard you frequently feel a deep skeletal ache and you're desperately tired. And you snuggle your face into your pillow and inhale, exhale, until you're breathing at the cadence of a sleeping person even though you're not quite asleep, so you hold off sleep just a little…“

„Polly loved animals, which is something I didn't understand until I became friends with a woman who loved, above all things, her dog. She said to me, "I could never date a man who didn't love animals." I think this meant she was looking for someone with the ability to love without keeping a tally system of faults and grievances and items owed and affection earned. I can't be sure; her dog bit me.“

„I came to a new conclusion about sleaze, right there on the floor: sleaze required the domestic as much as it needed danger. […] But sleaze isn't sleazy until it's judged and reprimanded. It needs a tether.
The ideal location, then, to attract sleaze was in proximity to danger and the honeytrap of domesticity.“