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It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.”
You’re alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you’re dead, it’s gone. Over. You’ve made what you’ve made, dreamed your dream, written your name. You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is finished.”
Fear is contagious. You can catch it. Sometimes all it takes is for someone to say that they’re scared for the fear to become real.
If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.”
“People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.”
You’re always you, and that don’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.”
But between now and then, there was Life; and Bod walked into it with his eyes and his heart wide open.