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"I've always been a C student with a million experiences when I could probably be an A student with nothing to say. I almost failed sophomore year, but the things that were so distracting became a transformation in my character I would never undo."

"Right. Sometimes, you just dive in and see what happens."

"Yes, and everyone else is too busy purchasing insurance before they dive in to even feel the water on their skin. I'd rather swim too deep than never know what's on the bottom."

"It's a good way to live."

"It's a turbulent way to live, too. You get disappointed a lot, and you fall in love too deeply, too quickly, too often, and you can never seem to get things done on time, but damn do you have good stories. And, y'know, at the end of my life, I am not my house or my car or my job or my resume or my trophy shelf or god knows what else, I am a vessel of stories and memories and emotions and nothing else matters. My grandmother doesn't remember who I am and I was looking at her this morning, she is dying, and she is only what she can remember and feel for. She is becoming death because she is losing her personal, her subjective, her love and her grudges, and that, Douglas, is what dying alone really means, dying without yourself. I'd rather have them pull the plug on me if i had to make that choice. Ten extra years, but the fine print says you won't have any idea what occurred in the sixty that came before them! And that is how I know I will not die alone, because I intend to be whole when it happens."

"Yeah. I'd rather they pull the plug on me too."

"So then you have absolutely nothing to fear."

"I just wish my consistency was a bit better."

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