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1 " Love me or hate me if you want, I don't care. But do it for all that I am, with all that I am. "
― Marieke Nijkamp , Before I Let Go
2 " But I want my life to have meaning because I give it meaning, not because someone else says that it does. I want my life to mean something because I create. Because I love. Because I make the world a better place. "
3 " It doesn't have to be a happily ever after or a happily always. Just a happily once. A happily sometimes. Hope. That'd make our pain worth it. "
4 " But together we held our darkness up to the light, and it became easier to carry because we were not alone. "
5 " Death is a thief... It slips into our lives and steals what we care about most. It breaks us, and even when we piece ourselves together again, the pain remains. "
6 " We must not deny our fear. We have to remember to be afraid. And we have to go on anyway. "
7 " I would give up every single star in the night sky to have another day with her. "
8 " The stars we see in the night sky are so far away that it takes years for us to see it when they die. I can't help but wonder if Kyra had burned out long before I left - and if we simply hadn't seen it. "
9 " She saw a future that none of us could see yet. She believed in a future, and for that, we believed in her. "
10 " We fly to an otherworldly place, one that does not play by the same rules. The evergreens wear an armor of snow. The air shimmers with cold. "
11 " You're my best friend. I love you endless days and endless nights. You're stuck with me. "
12 " This is how I will remember her. And with every corner I turn, I will still expect to see her. With every constellation I observe, I'll wonder about stories as well as science. I'll build a bridge to her. I'll look for falling stars. "
13 " But as much as the town believed in her, they still didn't value her enough to save her. And I lost myself to the world outside the town's borders. I forgot about her too. "
14 " Kyra rested her head back on the pillow. "We'll go farther than anyone in Lost ever has. Adventurers, looking for stories and stars.""But we'll always come home, right?" I asked.She looked up at me. "Maybe. Maybe I'll get lost on the ice instead. "
15 " Hers is a story that deserves to be told. Hers is a story that deserves to be heard. It's the story of a girl who believed in heroes and wanted to be one herself. Who saw stories in the world around her, and who regaled an entire Alaskan town with them. And hers is a story of how they started to believe her. "
16 " Intent only takes us so far. It's a shield people hide behind, but not a weapon. "
17 " We’ll go farther than anyone in Lost ever has. Adventurers, looking for stories and stars. "
18 " We’ll build a bridge. A bridge between us. "
19 " By the third day, everyone...had passed her at least half a dozen times, and they seemed to have forgotten about her entirely. "It gives me a chance to look ...from a different perspective...". "
20 " I used to tease Kyra about her fascination with comics, but she took it in stride."People have used art and graphics to tell stories for centuries," she said once. "We could all do with more heroes and tricksters and storytellers."I told her, "I'd rather have stars than heroes. "