If I could just stay alive for a week, I’d know the unwritten secrets of Anna’s mom and the Dutch Tulip Guy.

One of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories he told. Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering.

. . . Endlessness is a really strange idea in a universe that is defined by its endings.

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

I finally found something that can stop the fox. The fox cannot summit Strawberry Hill.” - Takumi

Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should. I'd hoped that he'd be eulogizing me.

Frankly, I kind of want you to be haunted by the unansweredness of the question, because I think being haunted by such things is a valuable part of being a person.