“I try to live life so that I can live with myself.”

“I even tried to tell myself to live my best life today.”

“I tried to tell myself that it could be worse, that the world was not a wish-granting factory, that I was living with cancer not dying of it, that I mustn't let it kill me before it kills me,...”

“If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?”

“I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself to train my body for real fear when it comes. But I am not prepared.”

“And I wanted to know whether it is possible to live a hopeful life in a world riddled with ambiguity, whether we can find a way to go on even when we don't get answers to questions that haunt us”

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”