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"I know we all think that we're immortal. We're supposed to feel that way - we're graduating. But, like our brief four years of high school, what makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever. What makes it precious is that it ends. I know that now more than ever, and I say it, today of all days to remind us that time is luck. So don't waste it living some one else's life, make yours count for something. Fight for what matters to you, no matter what, cause even if we fall short, what better way is there to live? Its easy to feel hopeful on a beautiful day like today, but there will be dark days ahead of us too. There will be days where you feel all alone, and that's when hope is needed most. No matter how bad it gets or how lost you feel you must promise me, that you will hold on to hope. Keep it alive. We have to be greater than what we suffered. My wish for you, is to become hope. People need that, and even if we fail, what better way is there to live. As we look around here today at all the people who helped make us who we are, I know it feels like we are saying goodbye, but we will carry a piece of each other into everything that we do next. To remind us of who we are and who we are meant to be."
"This is lies. We are liars. Think about it. Why do people buy cards? It's not because they want to say how they feel. People buy cards because they can't say they feel or are afraid to."
"Tom: What happened? Why - why didn't they work out? Summer Finn: What always happens. Life."
"It's these cards and the movies and the pop songs, they're to blame for all lies and the heartache, everything."
"Most days of the year are unremarkable. They begin and they end with no lasting memory made in between. Most days have no impact on the course of a life."
"So now, all alone or not, you gotta walk ahead. Thing to remember is if we're all alone, then we're all together in that too."
"And in the end I think I've learned the final lesson from my travels in time; and I've even gone one step further than my father did: The truth is I now don't travel back at all, not even for the day, I just try to live every day as if I've deliberately come back to this one day, to enjoy it, as if it was the full final day of my extraordinary, ordinary life. We're all traveling through time together, every day of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish this remarkable ride."
Ely: Do you know why I love you? Naomi: Because of my uncanny ability to wiggle my eyebrows? Ely: That is fascinating. And also because when I feel like sticking my head in an oven, you pull it out and you put cookies in there instead.