"No," Arden said quickly. "I don't, uh. Do that. Ever."

Stupid doctors and their stupid tests that return the data: very much not human.

"Do you have time...? I mean, I don't know if you have time right now or over the next few days or something, but...I'd really like to talk. Face to face. Because you're my friend and you're really important to me and I'm really fucking up this whole phone call, but in my defense I'm pretty fucked up and I think I lost control of this sentence."