And if I can't get these rushes of energy, I'M DYING, AND I KNOW I AM." He spoke the last words with sudden ferocity and desperation.
"All _I_ know is," said Tanny, "you don't look it." "I AM.

I am." Jim protested.

"I'm dying.

Life's leaving me." "Maybe you're choking with love," said Robert.

"Perhaps you have breathed in so much, you don't know how to let it go again.