Friday Quotes: Ordinary Grace

Book Beginnings on Friday is hosted by Rose City Reader. Share the opening quote from the book.
The Friday 56 is hosted at Freda's Voice.  Find a quote from page 56.

Check out the links for the rules and for the posts of the participants each week. Participants don't select their favorite, coolest, or most intellectual books, they just use the one they are currently reading. This is the book I'm reading right now---

Title: Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger

Book Beginning:

Prologue--All the dying that summer began with the death of a child, a boy with golden hair and thick glasses, killed on the railroad tracks outside New Bremen, Minnesota, sliced into pieces by a thousand tons of steel speeding across the prairie toward South Dakota.

Friday 56:

"Being in love. Is it kind of gooey?" I asked my sister. 

She laughed. "At first it is lovely. Then it is scary. Then..." She looked toward the hills of town, toward the Heights. "It's complicated," she said.

Comment: this is a book club selection for me. So far I am blown away by the writing and the intricate plotting of this book. It is reading a bit like a mystery. A man, Frank, is looking back on his life when he was a thirteen-year-old. That summer he experienced death in many forms: murder, natural, suicide and it proved to be the summer when he shifted from boy to man. I am only about 1/3rd finished by I think it is very well done. Have you read any good Coming-of-age books you recommend?