How it seemed like you could see everything, but certain things were blocked out, hidden.

“Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge…”

“We can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thin…”

“I don't know," I said. "What else did you do for your first eighteen years?""Li…”

“So," he said as we turned onto the main road, the muffler rattling, "I've been …”