What do I look like? The Wizard of Oz? You need a brain? You need a heart? Go ahead, take mine. Take everything I have.

It must be a hard thing, to be a father; living in fear that your daughter would meet a boy she liked, but also having to worry if she didn't.

Life and love go on.

I thought you were supposed to be pretending I don’t exist, not irritating me to death.

My life and his were twisted into a single strand. Cut one, and you cut both. If he were gone, I would not be able to live through that. If I were gone, he wouldn't live through it, either.

I felt like I was staring out across an ocean that I was going to have to swim from shore to shore before I could rest again.

no two writers go about things in exactly the same way (intro)