“We do not choose what happens to us. We can only choose what we do after. What we do now. We can only choose to keep going.”

“And we clung to each other like we were drowning because, in a way, we were.”

“Maybe that's why we used to get along so well - we both enjoyed lounging around in our own chaos.”

“They do not disappear when they die. They leave us their strength.”

“I wanted to tell him that you can meet someone and they can change your life forever, even if you have only known him for a short while, that when you leave, you're a different person than before you met him... and I undertstand that because of meeting Deni.”

“In the space between stimulus (what happens) and how we respond, lies our freedom to choose. Ultimately, this power to choose is what defines us as human beings. We may have limited choices but we can always choose. We can choose our thoughts, emotions, moods, our words, our actions; we can choose our values and live by principles. It is the choice of acting or being acted upon.”

“Yeah, I do. Sometimes I worry my memories will fade without them.”