“We are the wreck of what we have been, and the place of our own future demise.”

“You arent the thing that needs to change. Its that you are overcome by your situation, by the way the world has descended on you. There is much in you that is young and new and not just in you. In...”

“The world isnt the place we are told to live in. It is another place entirely. We have both more choice, and less, than we are supposed to have.”

“ Some people forget, do you know they forget what it is like to be young, to feel things ruthlessly, terribly. If you forget that much of life, well, I dont know.”

“As I sat in the office of the cure, he began to speak and explain to me what it was. I was there, and I had no choice but to continue, it seemed there was nothing but that, nothing else and yet, i...”

“You aren’t the thing that needs to change. It’s that you are overcome by your situation, by the way the world has descended on you. There is much in you that is young and new – and not just in you....”

“July 24, 6:03 A.M.The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a cliff...Michael Holzapfel knew what he was doing. He killed himself for...”

“A book is a suicide postponed.”

“How much can you really trust the promise of a suicidal father?”