“He considered the hard times in his life. All the things he had been afraid of. All those years wasted, he told himself, because I was terrified of being different. That’s why all us fifty-four-year-olds end up looking so much alike. All of us are terrified of being different.”
— Stuart McLean
“He turned the music up loud. So what if it would deafen him? It made him happy. Like it had so many times before.”
— Stuart McLean