“If life was fair, you wouldn't be here.”

“You need to bury it," Cary tells me. "All of that's over. You have to be here now.”

“The people feel and look the same, like they've settled here even though they know there's something more-something better-just beyond where they are.Small-town life.”

“I wouldn't have left you like that. Not like she did to me." I swallow hard. "She always said I'd die without her and she left anyway.""But you didn't die," He says."I did," I say. "I'm just waiting for the rest of me to catch up.”

“I take a deep breath. It smells suspiciously like bullshit in here.”

“Death has been here and where death has been no light shall ever be .”

“I mean, you know how it is. You chase a bottle of sleeping pills with a bottle of Jack Daniel's and life's never the same, no matter how many times you try to tell people it was just an accident.”