To add insult to injury, at that moment Cathy and a group of her friends walked by. “Ewwww,” they said collectively as we sopped up the mess. I felt my cheeks sear with heat.

Gilly Gilleshpee.

And I was fairly certain that my strong-enough-for-King-Kong-but-made-for-a-woman deodorant had utterly failed. – Doom with a View.

I realized then that thinking about what my life might have been was an impossible thing to consider, because in thinking about what my life would have been with Mama still in it, I would have to completely disregard the knowledge of what my life was now, with all its troubles and dangers but also all its miraculous gifts.

My motto is: When in doubt, just keep lying. Even if you’re terrible at it.

I miss you when you’re not around,’ he said. ‘I can’t sleep when you’re not next to me, and I worry a lot about what you’re up to.

Hey,” Faraday said after a few seconds. “Did you know your clock’s still ten minutes fast?

He’d been our center, the glue that held us together and gave us purpose.

I needed to accept that this was my reality, and nothing was ever going to change it.

Deep down it still really bothered me, but I tried not to let it show.