Imagine the one god himself has reversed his clock and reversed your regrets. Imagine knowing the bone-deep truth that whatever impossibility would make you truly happy has been granted. Imagine knowing you can once again hold your lost lover or your newborn child. Imagine what you feel during those first seconds of knowing. Now, imagine those first seconds last for days on end..... Like I said, I'm a chemist. It's all coming back to me.
Dermaphoria: A Novel (ed. Macadam Cage Pub, 2005)