“When you don't know enough about life to know what you might have missed out on, your imagination plays wicked tricks on you.”

“I know how loud the seconds can sound as you stand by a window and peer out into the night.”

“Sometimes you need to be touched to know you're still alive.”

“You don't jump off a bridge by mistake.”

“Who the hell ain't dysfunctional these days? When the Kennedys straighten out, then maybe the rest of us should worry.”

“The years of her life tumbled out onto the floor like marbles that she would never be able to gather up again in one bowl. The years of her life had been a made puzzle that one day gets unmade, the pieces all scattered.”

“Sometimes, in the dark of night, when no one else could hear him but me, he'd cry out, like he was fighting some silent little war in his head.”