The first is that it's possible for us to benefit through other people's losses. The second is that we may have to hurt ourselves in order to help someone else. Let's devote our fiercest willpower to dissolving them in the coming months. And let's begin today. There are prayers so apologetic and shamefaced and halfhearted that they all but melt away in my grasp like sad little flakes of snow.
Some prayers are very boring.
I wanted you to read this passage now, Leo, while you're at the height of your power to ask for what you want. May it inspire you to express prayers of such potent grace that they blow the archangel's mind. People who have recently fallen in love almost never get sick. Several studies show that the immune system performs at peak efficiency for those lucky fools in the throes of deep infatuation.