There is nothing more fun than hanging around with friends and banging on instruments. Anyone who has ever done it knows that this is true.

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.

This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.

He had his time measures and he had her. That was his life. For as long as he could remember, it had been that way, Dor and Alli, even as children. "I do not want to die," she whispered. "You will not die." "I want to be with you." "You are.

People are only mean when they are threatened.

There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple joy of living between summers was gone.

Anger is a poison. It eats us inside. We think when we hate someone we hurt them, but hatred is a curved blade, and the harm we do to others we also do to ourselves.