He had an appreciation for things other people had forgotten. - Gabrielle Zevin

...she doesn't want to become the kind of person who thinks that good news can only come from calls one was already expecting and callers one already knows

The only thing that kept me from wanting to die was the fact that I could leave my body and be in a body that worked perfectly for a while — -better than perfectly, actually — -with a set of problems that were not my own."
"You couldn't land at the top of a pole, but Mario could."
"Exactly. I could save the princess, even when I could barely get out of bed. So, I do want to be rich and famous. I am, as you know, a bottomless pit of ambition and need. But I also want to make something sweet. Something kids like us would have wanted to play to forget their troubles for a while.

In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.