“I knew these halls so well – and finally it was starting to feel like they knew me, too.”

“If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight for the hallowed halls of winter park high school, where a day has been known to last a thousand years.”

“I decided to clean out my locker, because I didn’t really want to come back here and again have to feel like my lungs were drowning in this perverse nostalgia.”

“I don’t know how I look, but I know how I feel: young. Goofy. Infinite.”

“It is so hard to leave – until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”

“This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.”

“I think the future deserves our faith.”

“The town was paper, but the memories were not. All the things I’d done here, all the love and pity and compassion and violence and spite, kept welling up inside me.”

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