"Just let me say right off the bat, it was a bike accident."
p. 3

"I don't want to make you cry. / I just want to tell you about Mick."
Mick, p. 4

"I should probably mention that I didn't really want the tattoo. But that wasn't the point. The point was, I didn't want him to have it."
Mick, p. 8

"I still hadn't cried. It wasn't that kind of pain yet. Mostly it was just this total feeling of emptiness in my gut. Like a cannonball had been shot cleanly through my middle."
The Serengeti Sucks, p. 26

"I mean grieving isn't exactly the kind of activity that makes you want to leap out of bed in the morning and get "up and at 'em."
The Serengeti Sucks, p. 33

"Because I swear to God, for just a second, I had the most incredible feeling that somewhere Mick was laughing too...