One person's crazy is another person's sane, I guess.
It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke.
I guess life is full of maybes.
You've never told me about your love life, Scarlett. You're a very pretty girl. You must have a boy shacked up somewhere for your personal delights. I'd bet it's a booky one, overtones of Harry Potter and a lot of black T-shirts.
Even though she had been warned, she tripped over the bike. She probably tripped because she'd been warned and was telling herself not to trip over the bike. She did that sometimes. It was often easier not to know what obstacles were in the way.