It shouldn't make you sad to know you're loved, Grayson." But it did. It made him sad, and panicked, and for just a moment, wishful.

Shannon: Only the living suffered. Only they were riddled with guilt and regret and unanswered questions.

He had realised that most vital of humanities. he had touched lives. And he had raised three boys that no one had wanted into men.

If love doesn't make a fool of us, what will?

He wanted to heave the glasses against the wall. Break them, break everything he could reach. Beat it, rend it. He stared out the window, imagined the city in flames, consumed to ashes. And still it wasn't enough.

Do you know what happens when you always look before you leap?" She reached out and touched his hand before hurrying toward the door. "You hardly ever make the jump.

Why were there no buoys in life to show you the way?