“Doctor."" Gideon set one ankle on the opposite knee and settled back, creating a picture of unyielding decisiveness.
""The only way I'm keeping my hands off her is if I'm dead. Find another way to fix us.""”

“It's not that I'm rebelling. It's that I'm just trying to find another way.”

“I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.”

“Never give up: There are certain times that you think, “OK, you have beaten me down to my knees. And now the challenge is, I am on my knees and you keep on beating me down. And the question is, are you going to keep beating me all the way to the ground or will I find a way to struggle my way back on to my feet.””

“If she's passing back this way I'm not that hard to find
Tell her she can look me up if she's got the time.”

“I'm fine with Nature's way, as long as Nature keeps it out of *my* way.”

“I personally was disappointed because I know I'm a lot faster than that. But I was able to do that just coming off knee surgery, so if I look at it that way, I'm happy.”

“It's a picture perfect eveningAnd I'm staring down the sunFully loaded, deaf, and dumbAnd done waiting for sedation to disconnect my headOr any situation where I'm better off than dead”

“I do this in my long poems. I have to move between one thing and another and this oscillation is the way I find out what I'm trying to say”

“I flipped the good doctor the bird.
Snorting, Gideon caught my hand and pulled me back down the hall.
"What is it with you and giving people the finger?"
"What? It's a classic.”