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He had pretended to himself that he had enjoyed it, and thus increased his misery.

Having been bullied as a new boy, he bullied others when they seemed unhappy or weak, not because he was cruel but because it was the proper thing to do.

"Without love, we are birds with broken wings."

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to somebody else.

"No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone."

"Fairness doesn't govern life and death. If it did, no good man would ever die young."

"All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you." Eddie was skeptical. His fists stayed clenched. "What?" he said. "That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind."

Puberty was there, but not intelligence, and manhood was stealing on him, as it always must, in a trance.

This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

"If we can remember the feeling of love we once had, we can die without ever going away."

How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise?

"What is it about silence that makes people uneasy?"