Excerpt: Words, Hands, Hearts

--random excerpts, in no particular order.

"As I look around, I notice he's eating a bagel. My son seems to always have a bagel, for some unknown reason, coming from some unknown source."

"Your damage control never worked, Luke. You're damaged and I don't know if I can repair you."

"I'm a good son, will you love me now?"

"“Sometimes I don't think I ever was that short,” I comment off-handedly.
Stoner Boy abruptly looks away. “Sometimes I don't think...” he says, pausing in the middle of his sentence. “that I was ever that young.”"

"If you stay out late enough, you can ignore the pain. If you stay out strong enough, you can taste the rain."

"Although, really, what sort of self-respecting high schooler brings a JUICE BOX for lunch?"

"when Danny whats his name – okay so his name really IS Danny and just Danny, but it's still fun to say"

"There's going to be hell when I get home, but I don't have to go home for like, another week until the doctor is sure I'm not dead. Am I dead? Sometimes I wonder a little."

"I fell down the stairs. I fall down a lot of stairs. I probably even fall up the stairs."

"I only look back once and I know that's not a tear"

"Like a peace offering, the boy whose name she still doesn't know meets her eyes before following her son up to his room."