"Nobody writes about how it feels when your father is murdered." (7)
"What's it like to be dead?" " When Daddy got shot. Do you think it hurt him?" (9)
"What were you living on anyway...love?"
"If you don't have dreams, what do you have?" (12)
"I look like hell. But I don't care."
"The smell of "salt air...roasting peanuts, taffy and the musty smell of the amusement piers..." (16)
"She shakes me a little to make sure I am listening. 'For me Davey. Do it for me, okay?' It is the for me that gets through." (18)
"'Is there a lot of crime here?' I feel myself breathing harder, faster."
"The sky in Albuquerque is bright blue. Bright blue and perfect, without a cloud. I've never seen such a sky. I can't stop looking at it." (29)
"Did you think I was going to.....
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