“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.”

“Where are you?" I wheeze into the floor. "Where did you go?”

“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 ov...”

“But my anger was a slippery thing, like a fish I was trying to keep hold of, and it wiggled out of my grasp.”

“I understand now that nobody could have saved Ty but Ty. Theres no one else to blame. Not you. Not me. Ty was holding all the cards.”

“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.”

“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”

“Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.”

“So its true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”