Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.

Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it’s mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life.

In a city this size, every year, hundreds of husbands walk away. Kids leave home. Wives escape. People disappear.

First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.

This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.

What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?