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“Rilke put it: “Beauty’s nothing but the beginning of Terror we’re still just able to bear.” When will you get terrifying? I can do it on command.”

“Two souls are sometimes created together and in love before they’re even born.”

“I read that sometimes when someone receives a heart transplant, the heart, on a cellular level, still has memories of its first home. People suddenly remember directions to places they have never been. They can suddenly play the piano. One man dreamed of his donor’s death. His body, now fluent in a new language. And I wonder what my own body will remember even after it has been asked to forget. If when I die, if when my body is sectioned up, half given to the dirt and half given a new purpose, I wonder, if some stranger with my memories will suddenly begin to jolt awake in the middle of the night. Sitting up, her arm outstretched, somehow knowing She is still reaching for your face.”