Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.

He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living.

And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.

I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.

I missed her then but it was an odd sort of missing because by then, I knew the meaning of forever.

A lot of people ask questions that they don't want to answer themselves, and if we're honest about the intimacy that we have with our parents, you wish them the best and you wish them the worst more than anybody else in the world. I think everyone has had a moment in their life where they wished a parent ill, and I think it's perhaps a very romantic idea that that doesn't happen.

Books and novels in particular that grapple with quite a few things are difficult to explain, so I think that first line can come in a substitute for trying to form a longer sense of what the book is about.