“Every single day was just a box on the calendar that I could put a red X through; each one brought me closer to Lucas and to liberty.”

“There will be 16 matches just in this one day...every single team will clash.”

“Choose whatever box you like, Mike. Just don't put me in one, son. Believe me, I won't fit.”

“And I was grateful. For all the things that had brought me to this moment, and for every single thing that would follow.”

“People ask every day, "Why was I put on earth?" As if there is perhaps one reason. The truth is that there are too many reasons to count, and each reason and each soul connects to every other,”

“I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like a black shade. Only for me, the long perspective of shades that set off one box from the next day had suddenly snapped up, and I could see day after day after day glaring ahead of me like a white, broad, infinitely desolate avenue.”