“And people are moody, dude. You gotta get used to living with people.”

“People always get used to beauty, though.”“I haven’t gotten used to you just yet,”

“People always get used to beauty though.”

“If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude getting stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.”

“But a lot of times, people die how they live. And so last words tell me a lot about who people were, and why they became the sort of people biographies get written about.”

“If you don’t live a life in service of a greater good, you’ve gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know?”

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