Creed and Woobees:

"...I didn't care, the sounds of my guitar made me calmer, somehow. Guitars are like 'woobees'.." [page 185]

A woobee is from when you're little or when you're older, something that made everything better when you had it with you. Something that you looked at, held, listened to, saw that made you feel safer or less upset or made you happy. Torey needs to calm down at this point in the book because he's getting so worked up over everything that's been happening with Bo involving Chris Creed. 

I used to have a woobee when I was younger, and it was my blankie. I still have it in my closet but I don't really use it anymore. I have a new woobee for myself now that I'm older. I have a bear that I have to sleep with every night and it helps me fall asleep. It used to be my Aunt Kathy's bear but I took that when we went to her apartment to clean it out. 

TBCC: Chapters two and three

"How could people live their whole lives with their kid and not know this?" [pg. 25]

Torey is talking to himself about Chris Creed and his parents. He's pretty much saying that how could Mrs. and Mr. Creed not know who Chris was or how he felt this whole time he lived with them. It sort of ties back to how they think of their son Chris. They always thought he was so normal and had friends or was just a happy kid. But for their whole lives they didn't know he was so unhappy and wanted to run away or possibly kill himself. This stood out to me because the importance of knowing your children and knowing what they're going through is really important, as you can see.