Your health, when you have it, is invisible to you. I - Alexander Chee

I became something they couldn’t imagine, something they would have kept me from becoming, and that, it seems to me, was always in my nature to become.

I tilt my head back and carefully toss my hair over my right shoulder in the way I have seen my younger sister do. I realize I know one more thing about her than I did before - what it feels like to do this and why you would. It’s like your own little thunderclap.

she looked at me as if a horse had wandered into the hall, and in commanding it with her eyes, she could get it to return to its stable.