"Ross Wakeman succeeded the first time he killed himself, but not the second or the third" (Part 1: Chapter 1, pg. 3.)

"Aimee had been cremated. Her ashes were somewhere on the other side of this lake, with her parents" (Part 1: Chapter 2, pg. 55.)

"What had scared her was the same thing that has scared Ross—what, even now, kept him shaking: the knowledge that for the second time in his life, he wanted someone he could not have" (Part 1: Chapter 3, pg. 167.)

"'And the old one, he spelled the word we heard. C-H-I-J-I-S. It means baby, in his language" (Part 1: Chapter 4, pg. 171.)

"The day after I try to kill myself, Spencer says we are going to a celebration in Burlington" (Part 2: Chapter 5, pg. 221.)

"My last cut, on the wrists, is the deepest. The pattern for this gash is already there, a blue chalked line beneath the surface" (Part 2: Chapter 6, pg. 287.)

"Once...