But this, too, wasn’t true. Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so dammed hard.

“We all have one idea of what the color blue is, but pressed to describe it spec…”

“That was the thing about being on the inside: the world was just going on, even…”

“We'd start slow, the way we always did, because the run, and the game, could go…”

“You didn't have to take a punch for me, you know,' he said. 'I'm a lover, not a…”