“We save our lives in such unlikely ways.”

“And if there's a moral there, I don't know what it is, save maybe that we should take our goodbyes whenever we can.”

“We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.”

“We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.”

“All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end.”

“In reality the world is made of thousands of groups of about five hundred people, all of whom will spend their lives bumping into each other, trying to avoid each other, and discovering each other in the same unlikely teashop in Vancouver. There is an unavoidability to this process. It's not even coincidence. It's just the way the world works, with no regard for individuals or propriety.”

“We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable.”