“We know that someone close to us will die. We might expect to feel shock. We do not expect this shock to be obliterative, dislocating to both body and mind.”— Joan Didion, imdb.com
“I didn’t want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that’s really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you’re so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”— Ned Vizzini, amazon.com