"I didn't really want to come back here and again have to feel like my lungs were drowning in this perverse nostalgia."

Virtue, Earth, Faith, Power

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"I didn't really want to come back here and again have to feel like my lungs were drowning in this perverse nostalgia."

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"I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointments in the Department of Having a Voice that Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin."

Humor

"I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now."

Change

"I walked to his bedside table next. Infinite Mayhem. the ninth sequel to The Prince of Dawn, lay atop the table next to his reading lamp, the corner of page 138 turned down. He'd never made it to the end of the book. 'Spoiler alert: Mayhem survives,' I said out loud to him, just in case he could hear me."

Memory

"Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about."

Memory

"If you want the rainbow, you have to deal with the rain."

Hope

"I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.."

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"I wanted us to have an adventure. Because I love that crap. Because I'm not whatever-her-name-is. I don't think it's oh so hard to walk four miles in the snow. I want that. I love that."

Society

"When adults say, 'Teenagers think they are invincible' with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail."

Strength

"So I let her go, too. And I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.Takumi."

Emotion

"I'm not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore."

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