“I walked out of his room sure I'd said the right thing maybe not as a father but as a Dad. I'd said the right thing, for once in my life.”
“It's hard to do," I said. Wes looked at me. "What is?" I swallowed, not sure why I'd said this out loud. "Get it right.”
“We'd been apart so long--I'd been dead so long," she said in English. "I thought surely you'd built a new life, with no room in it for me. I'd hoped that.""My life is nothing but room for you." I said. "It could never be filled by anyone but you.”
“I'd walk right up to him and blow his brains out.”
“My dad said I did the right thing. I hope I did, but it's hard to tell sometimes.”
“Glory be!' said the Cabby. 'I'd ha' been a better man all my life if I'd known there were things like this.”