“From behind the wheel, I learn the difference between a eulogy and an elegy, and discover which is more vital, in life and in death.”

“Dead is dead. For whatever reason. And in choice between life and death, there is no other choice.”

“I learn about the highs and lows of living with the same mother for your entire life, about how no one can make you angrier, but how you can't really love anyone more.”

“As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we’re really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.”

“This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.”

“I am learning that a life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality. And I want my life to be real.”

“This is the thing they don't tell you about being a third wheel - it's not like you're the wheel that's added on. You were one of the original two wheels, but suddenly you're not so important anymore. The relationship drives fine without you.”