- Crying adds something: crying is you, plus tears. But the feeling Colin had was some horrible opposite of crying. It was you, minus something.
- What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?
- Hassan came over and briefly appraised the picture before saying, "That's the most pathetic attempt I've ever seen to be goth. Goth kids don't like blink-182."
- He showed them pictures then; they crowded around his La-Z-Boy as his wrinkled hands flipped slowly through a photo album thick with memories. The oldest pictures were faded and yellowing, and Colin thought about how even in pictures of their youth, old people look old.
- "I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter."
- "You can love someone so much," he thought. "But you can never love people as much as you miss them."
- Hassan shook his head. "Dude, you're such a geek. And that's coming from an overweight Star Trek fan who scored a 5 on the AP Calculus test. So you know your condition is grave." He rubbed Colin's Jew-fro for luck, and then turned away.
- "...there's just some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what."
- "You're not boring. You've got to stop saying that, or people will start to believe you."
- And the moral of the story is that you don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
- As the staggered lines rushed past him, he thought about the space between what we remember and what happened, the space between what we predict and what will happen. And in that space, Colin thought, there was room enough to reinvent himself--room enough to make himself into something other than a prodigy, to remake his story better and different--room enough to reborn again and again and again.
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