Ramona refuses to let anyone say that he died; she says he left her, because that's how she sees it. Like a betrayal. -- pg. 105
Ramona pours herself a glass of whiskey. Breakfast is, after all, the most important meal of the day. -- pg. 109
The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you left behind want to stop living. -- pg. 220
"There are seven books, Dad. And eight films," says Elsa carefully. -- pg. 360