This is her first memory, the moment she begins.

"As far as I was then aware, the continent was little more then a testing ground for men with frozen beards to see how dead they could get."

"For one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does."

So much of this book was so stunning. It is so worth reading. Only complaint is that there are some uneven parts where it feels like it's trying too hard to connect to today's pop culture in a way that pulls me too far from the story.

This is such a soft and comforting read. Very firefly in nature.

With about 80 percent of life's most significant events taking place by age thirty-five, as thirty somethings and beyond we largely either continue with, or correct for, the moves we made during our twenty something years.

This book was amazing. I read it in one sitting and the characterization is stunning.

He didn't quit his day job to follow his dream; he just folded his dream into his everyday life.