Ellie. Look at me. Who would want me to be a part of their life?
I need to know that I have done one thing right with my life.[to Mary]
Do you ever get the feeling that people are incapable of not caring? People are amazing.[to Liz]
You’re an amazing person. I hope you know what an amazing person you are. I couldn’t ask for a more incredible daughter.[to Ellie]
We can’t choose where we come from but we can choose where we go from there.
So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how could that be.
God creates us, expels us from paradise. We wander around for thousands of years killing each other, before he comes back and saves 144,000 of us. Meanwhile, seven-and-a-half billion of us fall into hell.[to Thomas, about the Bible]
These assignments don’t matter. This course doesn’t matter. College doesn’t matter. These amazing, honest things that you wrote, they matter.
I’m worried that she’s forgotten what an amazing person she is.[to Liz, about Ellie]
I understand that you’re angry. But you don’t have to be angry at the whole world. You can just be angry at me.[to Ellie]
I need to know that she’s gonna have a decent life. Where she cares about people and other people care about her.[to Mary]
