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“A good joke is just a small story, you know. Only difference is the delivery.”
But like most things in life—even though it was wonderful and glimmering—it wouldn’t last.
“Beautiful things like these, they’re not for people like me—maybe they were once, but then . . . Well, the point is they don’t keep the lights on. They only ever make you money when you sell them, and if you get to the point where you gotta sell them, well, all you did was spend money to have your heart broken because you know you’ll never get it back. That’s a type of heartbreak I’d rather do without. And who the fuck in this world can afford to have anything that don’t earn its keep?
You ever thought about just how much time and energy and years of their life most people spend just trying to stay alive?”
“Life’s hard. There are people out there who spend every second of it just ...
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One thing I’ve come to understand in life is that, sometimes, you just have to accept the way things are. Sometimes, no amount of hoping or praying will change a situation.”
“Did you know that cancer patients are told to name their tumor?” “What?” “Yeah,” Will said. “They name their tumor. I learned that with Hayden. I think the idea is that it makes it less scary. You can make it less scary if you think of this horrible thing as just a person that you’re trying to send away, instead of thinking of it as death itself living inside your body.
How come we have a word for a child that loses their parents but no word for a parent that loses their children?
When people think about karma, it’s basically ‘anytime bad things happen to someone you don’t like.’ But that’s not really what karma is. Karma is about balance. Hell, the whole universe only exists because of balance. For any one thing, there’s an equal amount of an opposite thing, you know? And that’s how we all get along. We move through all of this balance.
“But let’s not confuse balance with justice. Those are two different animals. Justice is all about fairness, and I never said the universe was fair. No sir. Nothing about this universe is fair, and the only people who believe that are the people who haven’t lived long enough to have their stupidity corrected by life.”
All of it came and went. All the jokes, all the secrets, all the nothings that make up a friendship that spans decades.
