“I went to a urologist. He told me I could go at any time.”

“I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.”

“Chris was my friend and he was at the very heart of the Seattle music scene and beyond. I miss him, but I realized that he went as far as he could in this world with his soul. He couldn’t go any farther.”

“I didn't think my day could get any worse until my best friend told me she might be going crazy. Again.”

“I started crying again, my voice ragged. He told me to calm down. He told me it was going to be all right. And then, he told he'd be there soon.”

“I did have regrets these past six months,” he told me quietly. “I found it a curse as much as a blessing, all that time to think. About the things I could have said, that I should have told you  .  .  .”

“I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to stop going to those places.”

“I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. He told me to wear a brown tie. ”

“My father, I never knew, except for this one time when he threw a ball and told me to go fetch it.

"Dad," I said. "Am I a dog?"

"Lydia," he said. "I apologize.”

“I went for a walk last night and she asked me how long I was going to be gone. I said, 'The whole time.”