Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It's like a homepage without a scroll button?'

Everyone sees different things.

I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.

This world can only give me reminders of what I don't have, can never have, didn't have for long enough.

Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.

Or maybe I'd do what I always do - hang out and see what develops. Fatalist to the core.

I loved this woman the way you love ... well, nothing," he said, a note of suprise in his voice. "You can’t compare that kind of love to anything, can you? It’s its own unique gift.