“I'd chosen instead to just change my route, gomiles out of the way, as ifavoiding it would make it go away once and for all.”
“Why do most people take the shortest route to settle their differences and just walk off, break up and go separate ways instead of trying to talk and work things out?”
“I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. To make this all go away.”
“If I had my way, I'd make health catching instead of disease.”
“I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.”
“On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.”