I just don't think anyone can explain hoarding to me in a way that I will understand. 
 The scenes where the brothers leave the house were by far my favorite, like coming up out of a dark tunnel. I always think tandem bikes are hokey, but the idea of Langley leading his blind brother on trips around the city warmed my cold cold heart. 
 Favorite Quotes 
 And then there was that feeling one gets in a ride to a cemetery trailing a body in a coffin--an impatience with the dead, a longing to be back home where one could get on with the illusion that not death but daily life is the permanent condition. 
 And so do people pass out of ones life and all you can remember of them is their humanity, a poor fitful thing of no dominion, like your own.