You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.

So who are you then, Todd Hewitt?" he says. "What makes you so special?" Now that, I think, is a very good asking.

It's always darkest before the dawn, Todd.” I look at him, baffled. “No, it ain't! What kinda stupid saying is that? It's always lightest before the dawn!

So we forgive each other?" The crooked smile climbs up one more time. "Again?" And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say. "Always," I say to him. "Every time.

Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.

And it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.

But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.