“We are NOT the same age. We might have lived the same number of years, but we sure as hell aren’t the same age.

on vacation from work, and that was the worst. The most dangerous thing you can give evil is free time,

In life we might be enemies, but when faced with death, we see the truth: we are one species, all we have is each other, and where you go, I shall follow.

“There’s nothing like the sea. Now your skin knows that. Now it’s going to miss it, always,” he promises.

“If I live until I’m eighty, it won’t matter, because this is my now forever.”

Children aren’t responsible for their parents’ happiness, but they still try.

That’s all of life. All we can hope for. You mustn’t think about the fact that it might end, because then you live like a coward, you never love too much or sing too loudly. You have to take it for granted,

But for Ted it’s impossible to come home now, he realizes, because home was the people.

Getting stabbed with a knife is a trauma for the whole body, his leg was probably the part that healed quickest, it was other parts of Ted that were limping.