Stitches: A Memoir Mortality Quotes

Panel 1.49 is an X-ray image of David's head, neck, and shoulders. It's also a single panel in the middle of a white page. This is the first X-ray we see, and it's an image that will change David's life—not for the better, as his father thinks, but for the worse.

You might not think that fearing for your life could make you feel ecstasy, but it's the same kind of controlled fear you get when you're on a roller coaster. You know you're not going to die, but you can't help imagining what would happen if the car lost control.

David sees the fetuses in the jar on the fourth floor of his dad's hospital for the first time. The image of the children who died before they were born, trapped in eternal silence, will haunt him throughout his life.