Notes

-"All that pain and misery and loneliness, and it just made it kind."
-"When you're a kid, they tell you it's all... grow up. Get a job. Get married. Have a kid, and that's it. But the truth is, the world is
so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better..."
-"Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened, you know. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway."
-"If it's time to go, remember what you're leaving. Remember the best. My friends have always been the best of me."
-"You don't just give up. You don't just let things happen. You make a stand! You say no! You have the guts do to what's right,
even when everyone else runs away."
-"The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it's a world, or a
relationship... everything has its time. And everything ends."
-"We're so lucky we're still alive to see this beautiful world. Look at the sky. It's not dark and black and without character. The
black is in fact deep blue. And over there! Lights are blue. And blue in through the blueness, and the blackness, the winds swirling
through the air... and then shining. Bursting, bursting through! The stars, can you see how they roll their light? Everywhere we
look, complex magic of nature blazes before out eyes."
-"Letting it get to you. You know what that's called? Being alive. Best thing there is. Being alive right now is all that counts."
-"There's no indignity in being afraid to die, but there is a terrible shame in being afraid to live."
-"We all change, when you think about it, we're all different people; all through our lives, and that's okay, that's good, you gotta
keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be."
-"The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. the good things don't always soften the bad things, but vice
versa, the bad things don't always spoil the good things and make them unimportant."
-"Fear doesn't have to make you cruel or cowardly... fear can make you kind. It doesn't matter if there's nothing under the bed or
in the dark, so long as you know it's okay to be afraid of it. So, listen. If you listen to nothing else, listen to this. You're always
going to be afraid, even if you learn to hide it. Fear is like... a companion. A constant companion, always there. But that's okay.
Because fear can bring us together. Fear can bring you home."
-"Winning? Is that what you think it's about? I'm not trying to win! I'm not doing this because I want to beat someone! Because I
hate someone, or because I want to blame someone! It's not because it's fun. God knows it's not because it's easy! It's not even
because it works, because it hardly ever does! I do what I do because it's right! Because it's decent! And above all, it's kind. It's
just that. Just kind."
-"Only in darkness are we revealed. Goodness is not goodness that seeks advantage. Good is good in the final hour, in the deepest
pit, without hope, without witness, without reward. Virtue is only virtue in extremes."
-"Imagine if time all happened at once. Every moment of your life laid out around you like a city. Streets full of buildings made of
days. The day you were born, the day you die. The day you fall in love, the day that love ends. A whole city built from triumph
and heartbreak and boredom and laughter and cutting your toenails. It's the best place you will ever be. Time is a structure
relevant to ourselves.