The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint. - Van Houten

It's not fair," I said. "It's just so goddamned unfair." "The world," he said, "is not a wishgranting factory.

Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

March 4th, the only day that is also a sentence

I’ll give you my strength if I can have your remission.

I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then there were people like my parents, who walked around zombically, doing whatever they had to do to keep walking around.

Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich