“All I'm saying is that there is more to life than the main story. Check out the notes in the margins because maybe they're even more important.”

“...there is more to life than the main story. Check out the notes in the margins because maybe they're even more important.”

“Our own story is even more important for us to know than history.”

“Death of the heart,' the subtitle says, Whose death? And even more important maybe, whose heart?”

“(I think Rowdy might be the most important person in my life. maybe more important than my family.) Can your best friend be more importamt than your family?”

“He found himself thinking that maybe stories don't just make us matter to each other - maybe they're also the only way to the infinite mattering he'd been after for so long.And Colin thought: Because like say I tell someone about my feral hog hunt. Even if it's a dumb story, telling it changes other people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me. An infinitesimal change. And that infinitesimal change ripples outward - ever smaller but everlasting. I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter - maybe less than a lot, but always more than some.”