Ismay drives because Daniel is too drunk to drive. They live in the Cliffs, the most expensive part of Alice Island. All the houses have views, and the road that leads to them is uphill, twisty with many blind spots, poorly lit, and lined with yellow signs imploring caution. - P166
"You’re the grasshopper, and I’m the ant. And I’m tired of being the ant."
"That’s a rather juvenile reference. I’m sure you can do better." - P167
She thinks about driving them both off the road and into the ocean, and the thought makes her happy, happier than she would have been if she’d only killed herself. She realizes in that moment that she doesn’t want to be dead. She wants Daniel to be dead. Or at least gone. Yes, gone. She’d settle for gone. - P167
"You are bad. And what’s worse is, you’ve made me bad," she says. - P168
"Every time I see her with A.J. and Amelia, I’m sick. She should be ours." - P168
At that moment, headlights catch the rearview mirror.
The hit comes from behind, knocking the car into the center of the road so that it is crossing both lanes of traffic. - P169
More headlights, this time from the opposite side of the road. "Ismay, you have to drive." He turns in time to see the truck. A twist, he thinks. - P169
Lights, bright enough to dilate her eyes.
Horns, flaccid and come too late.
Metal crumpling like tissue.
The body was not in pain but only because the body was gone, elsewhere.
Yes, Daniel thinks just after impact but before death, like that. The passage hadn’t been as bad as he had thought. - P169
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