"Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought hey would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back." Introduction, p. 3.

"It's like this line is drawn somewhere in the world and if you never cross it, you'll never consider throwing yourself off a building or swallowing a bottle of pills - but if you do, you might." p. 3

"Mothers support certain illusions about their children, and one of my illusions was that I liked who I was, because she did." p. 4

"My theory was [my father] never got enough war for his liking. So he made his own with us." p. 29.

"Parents slot into postures in a child's mind, and my mother's posture...