"For most of the that time, she drafted an email to Dylan. He had a correspondence-return rate of about one in three, but you really have to stay on kid brothers" (18).

"'No one likes drinking.'
'Oh, I don't know. I think I see people who do.'
'They're not doing it right'" (165).

"Boy, I spilled more than you drank,' said Al. 'Just stop now. Forever. It never gets back to easy, it just keeps getting worse. Everything will get worse. Let me save you thirty mother-scrubbing years here. You use alcohol to clean wounds and get chewing gum out of woodwork. It is not for internal use. You drink it, you are inviting pain and dulling the only blad you brung to this fight. You will waste your days and sully your name, and your family will live in dread of you'" (166).

"'I'm going to call it Try Again Tomorrow.' He was so proud of the title.
'See, there's your problem right there,' she said. 'Why wouldn't you call it Try Again Right Now?'" (378).