“My dad always said that water makes the dead feel safe. Nothing draws them more. Or hides thembetter.”

“We walk around like a photograph that my dad's been cut out of.”

“The accusations make me want to be kid again. Why isn't my mommy calling them big fat liars?”

“I’m dead. I can’t be all right any more than I can be not all right.”

“It’s true what they say about answers only leading to more questions. There will always be more to find out, more to learn, more to do.”

“But I don't think she ever figured on raising a son by herself. Her family was supposed to form a circle. Now we walk around like a photograph that my dad's been cut out of.”

“I come in all big and bad, and you use me for a game of handball.” I grin. “Makes a guy feel damn manly. She grins back. “It made me feel pretty manly.”