In Anger Management,' he said,'we had to do all this role-playing stuff. You know, to get used to handling things in a less volatile way.' 'You role-played,' I said, trying to picture this. 'I had to. It was court-ordered.

But it was okay not to fit in everywhere, as long as you did somewhere.

It sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics.

Wes wants to be with Macy. And Macy, whether she'll admit it or not, wants to be with Wes. And yet they're not together, which is not only unjust, but when you think about it, tragical!

That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.

Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever.

It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing.