“Just because you'd left something behind didn't mean that it had gone anywhere.”

“...You can do something extraordinary, and something that a lot of people can't do. And if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to. I mean, it's just weakness to quit because something becomes too hard...”

“Knowing that each breath was another moment he was still here and, simultaneously, that meant that he had just moved a little closer to being gone.”

“A thousand moments that I had just taken for granted- mostly because I had assumed that there would be a thousand more.”

“I kept thinking back to all those nights in Connecticut, when I was out the door as soon as dinner was over, yelling my plans behind me as I headed to my car, ready for my real night to begin—my time with my family just something to get through as quickly as possible. And now that I knew that the time we had together was limited, I was holding on to it, trying to stretch it out, all the while wishing I’d appreciated what I’d had earlier.”

“Something tells me we're not in Kansas anymore""You did not just say that”

“I loved the idea that people could discover things. That you could be the person to see something first. Or see something that nobody else had been able to.”