At that moment i felt lonelier than i'd ever felt before, and that loneliness seemed to squat in my lungs and crush all but my most minimal breathing. There was nothing left to say. Not about this. Not about anything.

No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.

All I was afraid of is saying good-bye.

You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.

Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you.

How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.

Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.