Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

We can save the world," I say, trying to smile. "You and me.

Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?

Like how stars might sound. Or moons But not mountains. Too floaty for mountains. It's a sound like one planet singing to another, high stretched and full of different voices starting at different notes and sloping down to other different notes but all weaving together in a rope of sound that's sad but not sad and slow but not slow and all singing one word. One word.

A thing worth learning is worth learning well.