The narrator lies to the police when asked how fast he was going.

"I know I lied about it later to the police, telling them that I was doing the posted thirty-five, but I can honestly say I was going about forty" (8)

"I had just killed a man, and I was ogling the daughter I had made an orphan" (16).

“ On the ride home, back to my childhood bedroom, not my new dorm room, I kept saying, “it happened so fast. There was nothing i could do.“

“And . . . I’m not proud of this, but I want to tell you exactly what it was like. Daria, in an attempt to stanch the ever-expanding pool of blood behind her father’s head, took off her pale green sleeveless T-shirt and used it to compress the wound. She wore a white bikini top underneath. My eyes were drawn to her chest.” (15)

“And her hair was cut in an unflattering style and frizzy from the equatorial humidity that day immediately I felt guilty and somehow disloyal for forming these unkind impressions”(74)

“On the ride home, back to my childhood bedroom, not my new dorm room, I kept saying, “It happened so fast. there was nothing I could do.”

“ I had just killed a man, and I was ogling the daughter I had made an orphan.”(16)

“I saw the clearly marked signs that warned pedestrians to cross to the other side of the road, that clearly told them not to walk on the shoulder. Weren’t those signs implicit—no, definite—warnings that to proceed was dangerous”?

“A few minutes later my father came into the living room and said “were not going” the relief i felt was immense”

“Did I do the right thing? I like to think I did, but who knows?”(134)

(135) “The nightmares and my obsessive thoughts about that day have lessened. I don’t know. Maybe I’m getting better”

“I never married. Relationships never seemed to survive the moment I had to confess to the accident. The fault for these failed courtships, I’m sure, is mine. For the most part, the women I’ve been involved with were understanding, compassionate. (Though one woman got so angry that she slapped me.) But no matter the degree of their empathy, I always sensed in their eyes a change. In how they viewed me.”

“My dad never had a chance. And neither did the driver. It would’ve been impossible to react. It wasn’t his fault”

Immediately I felt guilty and somehow disloyal for forming these unkind impressions (74)

“Racing back , I thought , he’ll have some broken bones. He may have to go to the hospital “(13) “this wasn’t a case of some broken bones. His entire body was broken”(14)

“I had just killed a man, and I was ongoing the daughter I had mande an orphan.”

He was talking bad about how Daria looked when he saw her again

“She had gained considerable weight, I saw as she entered the Starbucks.”

“No I’m fine I replied Knowing even though that it was a lie.

“By November i had left college. I eventually moved to new York city”

“And then I let everything out. I told Daria exactly what I remembered. Everything: my inattention, the lies about my actual speed, my creepy, lascivious stares as she comforted her dying

father. I’m not a Catholic, but I imagine it was like the sacrament of confession. “I’m just so very, very sorry,” I ended”

(67) “The conclusions were inescapable, and a grand jury agreed. The victims had all been murdered by Russell Gramercy. They had been murdered by Russ. By Professor G. By the man I had killed with my car.”