Regardless of how hard the winds of chance might blow or how heavy the weight of experience might become, Stormy always stays on her feet...

In time she said, "I love you, Oddie."
My voice was thick when I replied. "I love you more than life.”
"We'll be okay," she said.
"We are okay."
"We're weird and screwed-up, but we're okay," she agreed.
"If someone invented a thermometer that measured weirdness, it would melt under my tongue. But you-you're cool.

Her stare was direct and unwavering, full of confidence earned from painful experience...

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life.

I never knew whether I was drawn to eccentric people or if they were drawn to me.