I remember the shock and... ...and nothing. Just the shock. - Idlewild

I'm not dead.
A dim realization but an important one, because I should have died.

He was the epitome of acting out to get attention. I think everyone acknowledged his jokes as a kind of defense mechanism. ('Humor? That's my lizard tail. You can look at that while I run away,' he'd once said.)

Children know precious little, but that profound ignorance comes from profound innocence. People really mean to say that innocence is bliss. And bliss is short-lived.