People like what they like, and that's the great and terrible thing. - Gabrielle Zevin

Hi," Sam said, without looking at her. "You can watch if you want. I'm going to play until the end of this life."
"That's a good philosophy," Anna said.

You can either be a bystander who lives his life in reaction to the decisions that others make, or you can be the leader who is making those decisions.

If we did not mark the days, we would not know how much we had survived.