“Sometimes you have to do things you don't like in order to make a change in the world.”

“I think she was afraid to love sometimes. I think it scared her. She was the type to like things that were concrete, like the ocean. Something you could point to and know what it was. I think that's why she always struggled with God. And I think that's why she also struggled with love. She couldn't touch it. She couldn't hold on to it and make sure it never changed.”

“Sometimes it's those things you can't touch that you need to hold on to the most.”

“-you can think you know someone and then they say something or do something and suddenly everything changes.”

“Do you ever think it's the dead that have the happy ending? Just they don't have to worry about surviving.""But they're dead," he says"Yeah. That means they don't have to remember anything."Elias shakes his head. "That means they can't ever love."I snort. "So they don't know loss.”

“You stay safe, You love. You survive. You laugh and cry and struggle and sometimes you fail and sometimes you succeed. You Push.”

“...I realized that life isn't something to be scared of. That you don't have to hold on so tightly that you can't breathe.”