“Listen to the beat.Play the sound of his voice over and over again in your mind.You try to turn down the volume but baby this speaker has no controls.Just close your eyes.Listen to the last notes of this solemn memory. Live honey, can't forget, but you gotta live cause you gotta prove them all wrong about you, gotta show'um you won't be the one to slip between the earthquake lines forming in this dry dirt...”

“life is hard, kid. you gotta be harder. you gotta take it on and fight for it and be a fucking man about how you live it. if you're too much of a pussy to do that, then maybe you should leave, 'cause you're dead already”

“In moments of crisis, all you gotta do is review your multiplication tables, and it’ll all blow over!”

“Do yourself a favor,' I said. "Forget it. Forget you ever saw me.""Forget that you tried to kill me too?""Yeah. That, too.""But who are you?""Percy-" I started to say. Then the skeletons turned around. "Gotta go!""What kind of name is Percy Gotta-go?"I bolted for the exit.”

“God, it’s over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people’s problems and get some of your own.”

“so many people will tell you that you can't but all you gotta do is turn around and say "Watch me”