You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?

They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I’m the one who lost.

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, you life becomes less about living and more about waiting. For cancer. For dementia. Every look in a mirror, you scan for the red rash that means shingles. See also: Ringworm. See also: Lyme disease, meningitis, rheumatic fever, syphilis.

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.