"Can you pull the tooth in? Can you become alive again? No. Neither can she stop what she hears, the static and the chatter, it's always on. Who would choose to hear everything? There are ones with better control and better manners than she can afford or have ever been afforded to her."

Glancing over her shoulder at him. "Can you accept the things you cannot change and have the courage to change the rest, the wisdom to understand that she can't very well turn it off any more than you can go swimming in the noonday sun?"