“You will never again be the person who had never tried tacos, because after you try one that person no longer exists. In a way he'll die, and someone new and more experienced will take his place." And”
“So I squeeze his hand, and it's really warm and hand-shaped, and we walk around the beach, and explore a little”
“If I open up, it gets me, Dad. It gets me, and I don't know if I'm strong enough to stand it.”
“Life just gets better. Which is not to say that it's always easy.”
“I am worthy. I am enough. Safe. Secure. Worthy. Enough.”
“I am a whole, complete person, worthy just as I am.
And I am enough.”
“Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.”
“Next time I'll pat you on the freaking back for stating the obvious.”
“I'm not going anywhere, not without Chloe."
Derek”
“Sometimes I come up here at night, even when I'm not fixing the clocks, just to look at the city. I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is one big machine, I have to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.”
“Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.”
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