Chapter#1

"I thought you were dead, Scotty. But dead people can't crawl."

Chapter#5

"people say you fall in love, but fall is such a sad word when you think about it. Falls are never good. You fall on the ground, you fall behind, you fall to your death.

Whoever was the first person to say they fell in love must have already fallen out of it. Otherwise, they'd have called it something much better."

"I ******* love you, keena. I love you more than I've ever loved anyone. I miss you all the time, even when we're together."

Chapter#11

" The very beginning.

Or at least fast-forward to the end."

Chapter#13

"That question punched me in my stomach -----the stomach that no longer contained my daughter. Ivy wasn't giving me a pep-talk. In a lot of ways, it was the opposite. She wasn't saying I would move past what I was feeling, or that things would get easier.

Chapter#15.

"I wanted a parents who raised a men like Scotty to raise my child."

"Now you'll know how I felt every time the state took you from me. I went through so much to get you back both time, and you never appreciated it. You never even said thank you."

Chapter#16

"He wanted to meet a girl and have kids and take them to the movie every weekend and to Disney world every summer."

"I don't want to be important. I don't want the pressure. I want to slide under the radar like my dad, because when he comes home at night, he's in a good mood."

"He loved you just the way you were."

Chapter#17

"Our reality is that you're dead, I'm orientation a shitty job making minimum wage, and our daughter is being raised by people who aren't us."

Chapter#21

"She looks like both of us, but she laugh like you. She's perfect in every way. I'm sorry you never got to meet her."

Chapter#24

" it's incredible how two people who have never met can have so many of the same mannerisms."

Chapter#32

"We're all just a bunch of sad people doing what we have to do to make it until tomorrow. Some of us sadder than others. Some of us more willing to forgive than others.

Grudges are heavy, but for the people hurting the most, I suppose forgiveness is even heavier."

Chapter#33

"Those were my three favorite things. That lake. Your car. You."

"There was before you and there was during you. For some reason, I never thought there would be an after you. But there was, and I was in it. I'll be in it forever."

Chapter#34

"I'm sorry you lost him."

"I can't hold back the tears after that. it's the first time anyone has ever acknowledge that I lost Scotty that night too."

Dear Scotty .

"I still miss you. I'll always miss you. But I'm convinced that the holes you left behind are only holes left by is.

Wherever you are. You're complete. That's what matters.

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