"Always, I would watch Ray; I was in the air around him, I was in the cold winter mornings he spent with Ruth Connors;…"

"There was one thing my murderer didn't understand; he didn't understand how much a father could love his child."

"My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. I took his photo once; he stepped out of nowhere and ruined the shot. He…"

"I wasn't lost, or frozen, or gone... I was alive; I was alive in my own perfect world."

"Holly said there was a wide, wide heaven beyond everything we knew; where there was no cornfield, no memory, no grave…"

"I was in the blue horizon between heaven and earth. The days were unchanging and every and every night, I dream the s…"

"Grandma Lynn predicted I would live a long life because I had saved my brother. As usual, Grandma Lynn was wrong."

"The story of a life and everything that came after..."

"Mark Wahlberg - Jack Salmon"

"I was slipping away, that's what it felt like, life was leaving me, but I wasn't afraid; then I remembered: "There wa…"