Gilly was crying now.She couldn‘t help herself.
"Trotter, it‘s all wrong. Nothing turned out the way it‘s supposed to."
"How you mean supposed to?
Life ain‘t supposed to be nothing. ‘cept maybe tough." - P176
"That all that stuff about happy endings is lies. The only ending in this world is death. Now that might or might not be happy, but either way, you ain‘t ready to die, are you?"
"Trotter, I‘m not talking about dying. I‘m talking about coming home."
But Trotter seemed to ignore her.
"Sometimes in this world things come easy, and you tend to lean back and say,
‘Well, finally, happy ending. This is the way things is sup-posed to be.‘ Like life owed you good things."
- P177