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“I can’t go back yet. I have to stay on Earth until I’ve seen five miracles. It’s part of our training when we get to a certain age—kind of like school.”
“Lots of crazy people are smart.” “But she acts like she knows exactly what she’s doing.” His blue-glass eyes sharpened. “Why can’t a person with a mental condition know exactly what she’s doing?” “That’s sort of the point I’m making.” “Which is what?” “What if she’s smart enough to know what she’s doing?” “Meaning?” “She knows going home isn’t safe.”
“She’s kind of like a baby. She didn’t know she was supposed to grow up, and that makes her more fun than other grown-up people.”
As always, words fail when you most want to say the right thing.”
“People think they have to say something, and it never makes me feel better.” “I know. I’ve decided language isn’t as advanced as we think it is. We’re still apes trying to express our thoughts with grunts while most of what we want to communicate stays locked in our brains.”
“When I knew my mother would be dead in a few months, I had two choices . . .” She looked at him. “I could distance myself from the pain or get closer to
I’m not recovered from it even now, but I made the conscious choice to enter the darkness with her. Everyone I know who’s lost someone they love has voiced regrets—they
wish they’d done this or that or loved them more. I have no regrets. None.”
Gabe started to live as Ursa did, in an infinite present disconnected from the past or future.
“I knew a woman who made love in a graveyard had to be an incredible romantic.”
the elder reliving the face of his youth, the young man confronting his future.
