"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but i will never feel it."
"The economics of disability are precise and you are always in the red."
"Alone, in that dark hotel room, the noise from the beach finally quieting, I questioned for the first time whether all dependence should be counted as loss."
"The first time he’d been caught, he was fourteen. His father walked in on him standing in front of a full-length mirror in nothing but black stockings, like the kind Spanish girls wore under jean miniskirts and leather boots, tripping-tipsy on calimocho."
-- "Me After Me Before You"