‘This is all you remember. The sound of her pacing the house at night.’
‘After about three days in Djenné the lizards begin to talk.’
‘She was living as herself, in herself, without ever thinking about what that meant.’
‘It felt like everything that had happened to me in college, everything I had learned to be comfortable with, had produced this jerk standing naked in the water, splashing his best friend’s girlfriend in the chest.’