Chris Lynch

“Your family should be there. Your family should always be there. What does it say about you if they aren't?”

“I hate it hen people I love refuse to speak to me.”

“Fate is a bitch, but there you go.”

“We have a piano in this house that exists solely for the purpose of supporting her photograph.”

“The right word at the right time helps you make sense of the world. It helps, but sometimes not a lot.”

“Sometimes seeing everything just gets in the way.”

“Don’t fuck yourself waiting for fair. Understand? Listening? You will fuck yourself waiting for fair.”

“Life goes on,” she says, like a dare.”

“This is the saddest place on Earth," I say."Take it from a rat, kid--there are lots of saddest places on Earth.”

“The stupidity of a well-placed "dude" can really defuse a situation”

“I thought about mistakes I had made in the past. I thought about when things went wrong. And I realized it was never an issue of intent, but of intensity. I was a good guy, recall.”