reading another book, currently on page 64, so far so good, & here are a couple lines from it that struck me although i'm not quite sure why they did.

p. 48 - next morning tom spends his breakfast time staring at me and david, and after a little while i begin to find it disconcerting. he is a disconcerting child, tom -- he's quiet, quick on the uptake, direct to the point of being rude. he has the personality of a child prodigy, but no discernable talent.

p. 60 - i'm a good person. in most ways. but i'm beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn't count for anything very much, if you're a bad person in one way.