“We don't need to understand everything.”

“We are the ones who are alive. Here. With everything to lose”

“And I'll tell her that I don't want my life to be samples and scraps. A taste of everything but a meal of nothing.”

“We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have.”

“Time, Vick said, "is what we don't have.”

“Everything I dream is something simple and plain and everyday. That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have”

“Was [Sisyphus] from your province?'I don't know. I don't know if he's real,' Ky says. 'If he ever existed.''Then why tell his story?' I don't understand, and for a second I feel betrayed. Why did Ky tell me about this person and make me feel empathy for him when there's no proof that he ever lived at all?Ky pauses for a moment before he answers, ...'Even if he didn't live his story, enough of us have lived lives just like it. So it's true anyway.”