“But sometimes you lose. Nothing you can do but admit it.-Eli”

“It's so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.”

“You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence-Eli”

“You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances.”

“It was terrible and awful when someone left you. You could move on, do the best you could, but like Eli had said, an ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have to have the last word.”

“I waited. Because with Eli, he was never trying to get you to finish for him. He always knew where he was going, even if it took a little while to get there.”

“You have to admit, it's kind of impressive.... Total commitment. You know, the idea of discovering something that, for all intents and purposes, goes against your abilities, and yet still deciding to do it anyway. That takes guts, you know?”