"The article she was looking at was about how the most important thing was to be yourself although the pictures that went with it recommended being someone else." (Chapter 1, p. 2)

"He definitely felt unfinished, still in process. He felt that there was still time, that by the time three years had passed and he was seventeen, as Rowanne was now, he, too, might coalesce into something." (Chapter 2, p. 7)

"Life was rearranging itself; bulging in places, fraying in spots. Sometimes leaving holes big enough to see through, or even step through, to somewhere else." (Chapter 2, p. 24-5)

"This was the danger of sharing your dreams with your parents. If you told them you wanted to learn to play the guitar, all they heard you say was, "I want to learn to play the guitar," and then they found some practical, convenient, cheap way, often involving a church basement, for...