“You need to try.”
“I have doubts, but I'm willing to try. It's the best I can offer. Will you try? I need you, Mira. Try for me.”
“I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.”
“You trying to make me crazy?” “Everyone needs a hobby.”
“I tried to tell you that it's not Spade in there.""You could have tried harder. I absolutely never needed to know that Ian was pierced down there.”
“To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you'd ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need.”