"All I want to do is run away. I just want to start over. I do not want to explain this to Dad. i feel like a failure. A loser" (Chapter 8, p. 55).

"Already I feel something good coming from this. I find myself wondering what it would be like if I could trade Dad for Dave" (Chapter 13, p. 93).

"I guess it was hard for him to look at the logic behind the draft lotteries, because that same logic had taken away his father. And, anyway, what's so logical about the day you were born deciding when you might die" ((Chapter 16, p. 117).

"Mom says that Nader is a loser who will grow up to be a loser and that I'll understand that when I'm forty. But I want to understand now" (Chapter 17, p. 130).

"Aren't we all bleeding a little" (Chapter 18, p. 151).

"It might have seemed a good solution. A...