“No. I kind of accepted it, in a way. That saving you was worth losing what we might've had.”

“Some days we lose all at once and somedays we get all back at once. But either way,Accept it.”

“That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.”

“The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you’re going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins.”

“Suddenly I grasped what was happening- they were all trying to save me. I never thought I was worth saving.”

“Somehow, some way, she had to be alive. A world without her carefree laughter didn't seem worth living in. A world that couldn't see her lovely smile wasn't worth saving.”