“I learned, in fact, how to make myself invisible.”

“All I wanted was to be nowhere with you.”

“There lay the space suit, its sleeves and legs twisted unnaturally, like a victim of a fall from a great height.”

“He had neither family nor tribe to be proud of, except for Neil Armstrong, who set foot on the Moon the day he was born.”

“I was up against two opposing demands: his longing to be pronounced a man, and the government’s preference that he was not.”

“Said quietly, the name lingers in your mouth like a candy-sized stone, impossible to swallow or spit out.”

“I entered that bathroom a romantic teen and left a tormented woman.”

 “Now she ate and drank, but didn’t know who she was. A whole eighty years of life forgotten.”