1
It's just high school, man. Those guys are just high school guys, and in ten years they're going to be working for people like me. I know that. I just have to make it through two more years.Cynthia Hand
2
Where are you?" I wheeze into the floor. "Where did you go?Cynthia Hand
3
It's funny how sometimes you don't see the obvious things coming. You think you know what life has in store for you. You think you're prepared. You think you can handle it. And then-boom, like a thunderclap-something comes at you out of nowhere and catches you off guard.Cynthia Hand
4
Everybody dies, and everybody loses people they love-everybody-and that is not an excuse for you to fucking die. I love you, and I need you to be my mother, and I need you to have a life. So get over yourself.Cynthia Hand
5
I understand now that nobody could have saved Ty but Ty. There’s no one else to blame. Not you. Not me. Ty was holding all the cards.Cynthia Hand
6
But my anger was a slippery thing, like a fish I was trying to keep hold of, and it wiggled out of my grasp.Cynthia Hand