Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.

When I was raped I lost my virginity and almost lost my life. I also discarded certain assumptions I had held about how the world worked and about how safe I was.

In this deeply nuanced portrait of an American family, Bret Anthony Johnston fearlessly explores the truth behind a mythic happy ending. In Remember Me Like This, Johnston presents an incisive dismantling of an all-too-comforting fallacy: that in being found we are no longer lost.

Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.

I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.

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

Then a little voice in him said, Let go, let go, let go