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“Mom was adamantly pro-choice. She had a bumper sticker on the car that read If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child? But in her case the choice was to keep me.”
“Every fiction has its base in fact.”
“She didn't care that people called her a bitch. 'It's just another word for feminist,' she told me with pride.”
“But sometimes the memories feel so real, so visceral, so personal, that I confuse them with my own.”
“Neither sleet nor rain nor a half inch of snow will compel me to dress like a lumberjack.”
“Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won't feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away.”
“Adam's lips are set in a grime line. I can't tell if he's about to cry or about to punch the guard. For his sake, I hope it's the former. For you own, I hope the latter.”
“Sometimes you make choices in life, and sometimes choices make you.”
“When we got back home, Gramps dropped me off and enveloped me in a hug. Normally, he was a handshaker, maybe a back-patter on really special occasions. His hug was strong and tight, and I knew it w...”
“But Dad looked delighted. "My Mia's singing 'Waiting for Vengeance' to my Teddy. What do you think about that?”
“Almost don't matter. You got to deal with the situation at hand.”
“It wasn't even a fight, really. We didn't shout. We barely even argued, but a snake of tension quietly slithered into our lives.”
“I don't really care. I shouldn't have to care. I shouldn't have to work this hard. I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.”
“If I stay. If I live. Its up to me.All this business about medically induced comas is just doctor talk. Its not up to the doctors. Its not up to the absentee angels. Its not even up to God who, if ...”
“Look I accept Adam because you love him. And I assume he accepts me because you love me...your love binds us.'...The funny thing was, I never really bought into Kim's notion that they were somehow ...”
“Sometimes I did feel like I came from a different tribe. I was not like my outgoing, ironic dad or my tough-chick mom. And as if to seal the deal, instead of learning to play electric guitar, I'd g...”
“But seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love.”
“In a funny way, Dad was always a bow-tie wearer, always a little more traditional than you might imagine. Because even though he had blue hair and tattoos and wore leather jackets and worked in a r...”
