Hi," Sam said, without looking at her. "You can watch if you want. I'm going to play until the end of this life." "That's a good philosophy," Anna sa… - Gabrielle Zevin

I'm going to play until the end of this life.

She was pretty and smart, which makes her death a tragedy. She was poor and black, which means people say they saw it coming.

Did she ever reply?" Bong Cha narrowed her eyes at Sam, deciding if her grandson was trying to trick her into appearing foolish. "Yes, in my mind, she did. I knew your mother so well I could play her part. The same with my own mother and my grandmother and my childhood best friend, Euna, who drowned in the lake by her cousin's house. There are no ghosts, but up here" — she gestured toward her head — "it's a haunted house.

It was odd to have something so personal out there in that way, but the good thing about art is that no one necessarily knows what you mean by it anyway.