He could hardly breathe at the though of his son and Quintana in Sorel with no one to protect them.

Don't let anyone take care of you. Can you maybe leave that for me to do? I mean, take care of you? Feel free to take care of me in return... because I think I'll need you to do that.

This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. Hannah once told me that there is something unnatural about being older than your father ever got to be. When you can say that at the age of seventeen, it's a different kind of devastating.

But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.

No love is greater than that of a father for His son.

I believe the true measure of a man is not what my boss, associatesor friends think or say about me. But what my kids say, believe and think of me when playing and talking to their friends.