In the book Crenshaw does the quote “‘here’s the thing, Jackson. life is messy. it’s complicated. it would be nice if life were
always like this.’ he drew an imaginary line that kept going up and up. ‘but life is actually a lot more like this.’ he made a jiggly line that went up and down like a mountain range. ‘you just have to keep trying.’” come before or after the quote “imaginary friends are like books. we're created, we're enjoyed, we're dog-eared and creased, and then we're tucked away until we're needed again.”
