"Oh yeah it does, most definitely it has an ocean, only it’s purple, and the sand is blue and the sky is hella green."

"It occurs to me that Mom’s making all this up because Jude can’t stop missing Grandma. When mom found them that final morning, one asleep, one dead, they were holding hands, I thought this was creepy but I kept it to myself."

"I lied to her. I think she was right the first time. I think it’s because of me. She scoots over so we’re shoulder to shoulder. This is us. Our pose. The smush. It’s even how we are in the ultrasound photo they took of us inside Mom and how I had us in the picture Fry an Zephyr tore up. Unlike most everyone else here on earth, we were together, we came here together."