“I can see something in his eyes. Something powerful and terrible and all-consuming.”

“He turns me inside out with a look, destroys me with a kiss.”

“No one survives life.”

“And I want to play hide-and-seek and give you my clothes and tell you I like your shoes and sit on the steps while you take a bath and massage your neck and kiss your feet and hold your hand...”

“Death is my lover and he wants to move in.”

“But that was life: Nobody got a guided tour to their own theme park. You had to hop on the rides as they presented themselves, never knowing whether you would like the one you were in line f...”