My grandfather was terminally ill, and any interaction with him felt so incomplete. It seemed impossible to say or do anything that was enough. And, of course, that was true. Nothing could have been enough. Jesse Andrews Read Quote
There’s a certain trope in young adult fiction. A young girl gets cancer and becomes this radiant person who’s a fountain of insight. Everyone who encounters her is changed for the better. That doesn’t happen all the time. The whole thing is much more difficult to process. Adults have trouble with it, so why shouldn’t we expect teens to? Jesse Andrews Read Quote
The Haters’ has some of the generalities of band experiences that I’ve had – the camaraderie, the grubbiness, the outsized collective ambitions and frequent painful collisions with reality – but very few of the specifics. I guess it was a way for me to take some of my experiences to their logical crazy extremes. Jesse Andrews Read Quote
