I was woefully ignorant in the social graces. I was being raised, after all, by Pellinore Warthrop.

A word of advice, Will Henry. When a person of the female gender says she wants to show you something, run the other way. The odds are it is not something you wish to see.

Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it.

The doctor frowned upon drinking and often expressed wonderment at men who willingly made imbeciles of themselves.

There's an old saying about truth setting you free. Don't buy it. Sometimes the truth slams the cell door shut and throws a thousand bolts.

Perhaps God waits for us to be empty, so he may fill us with himself.

And in more than half the pictures, she isn't looking at the camera; she's looking at him. Not the way I would look at Ben Parish, all squishy around the eyes. She looks at Evan fiercely, like, This here? It's mine