I didn't want to see them lower him into the ground in the spot he'd picked out with his dad, and I didn't want to see his parents sink to their knees in the dew-wet grass and moan in pain....

“It's almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it …”

“Because you're only thinking they-might-not-like-me-they-might-not-like-me, and…”

“We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into …”

“Crying adds something: crying is you, plus tears. But the feeling Colin had was…”