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

there is no best and no worst, ...those judgments have no real meaning because there is only what is

That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence

Muhammad brought the promise that anyone could find fulfillment and everlasting life through allegiance to the one true God. The Buddah held out hope that the suffering could be transcended. Jesus brought the message that even the last shall be first, that even the tax collectors and lepers - the outcasts - had cause for hope. And so that is the question I leave you with in this final: What is your cause for hope.

She was up and down—from fire and brimstone to smoke and ashes.

What happens in the band room stays in the band room.

He missed his imagined future.