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).

“ I kept saying, It happened so fast. There was nothing I could do”(29)

“I was set to lie: it was when the giants won the Super Bowl. Instead, I shocked myself by replying,” when i killed a man.”

(56)

I had killed a man and I was ogling the daughter I had made an orphan”

He was thinking about her chest when he just killed someone he weird

“I could clearly see them both, and Chris was a good two or three feet away from him. Your father stumbled. That image is etched in my mind perfectly.”. (132)

“His shoulder and head shattered my windshield, then he disappeared over the roof of the impala. I did not slam on the breaks until he had already landed on the highway behind me.

The brother was calm about the accident that happened with his dad although the daughter was mad about the incident of her dad.

The accident affected a lot of people but mostly the victim’s family because not just that they killed the father they also find out that he was a cereal killer.But it mostly affected Daria Gramercy because she couldn’t believe what had happened , and she would had been devastated if she found out who actually killed her father. The author was also affected in a negative way because after the accident he was repressed, traumatized because he thought he killed Russell Gramercy.

“Beckstein had cropped and blown up the footage of the accident. “Forget what you see on TV. Our software can’t miraculously sharpen an image so it looks like a thirty-five-millimeter movie. But we can do quite a bit.” (117)

“ Then he played the images for me on a large, sixty- inch monitor. Though heavily pixilated, it showed Chris Gramercy showing his father into the path of my oncoming car.” (118)

“I had just killed a man and i was ogling the daughter i had made an orphan ‘’

“My drivers license expired when i was 21 i did not renew it, nor have i ever driven a car again after that day i killed professor G” (52).

“ Was going around forty miles per hour. 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)

“And do what? Upset them more? Apologize for killing their father?” I did not want to face them, in particular Daria.”

“But I can tell you definitely that your brother did not cause your fathers death”(132)