" I’m not jumping.
“Then you will die.”
I nodded to the gaping hole on the forty-seventh floor. “How is this not dying?”
Gobi gave me another nudge toward the edge and for a second I actually felt the vacuum of space itself sucking me outward. For the first time I registered the arrival of something out there, huge and loud, eclipsing the city lights. It was bigger than my father, bigger than college. It was as if the final seconds of my life had been waiting for me here this whole time and now that it had arrived I had no choice about how to meet it. "
― Joe Schreiber , Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick (Perry & Gobi, #1)