“When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. They’re gone. All because I was deathly afraid of being forgotten. And then came the regret. The worst things of all worst things.”

“Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it”

“I'm home and safe and filled with the comfort of being somewhere I've already been. The ruckus of homecoming is brutally enjoyable and everyone makes me feel like a champion. And all I had to do was stay away long enough.”

“...when you hate someone so much, a part of you wants desperately to forgive them. But you can't decide if it's because you really want, or if you just want to stop hating. I still don't know if forgiveness is generous or selfish. Maybe both.”

“As we all came to discover the limitations of assimilation, we grew closer as a family”

“Being remembered is all anyone can ask from a lost love.”

“A man's life is all he has. When you're old, it's all you'll ever have.”