"...We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be. When adults say, 'Teenagers think they are invincible' with that that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail." (220-221)
I love that quote. And since Miles, the main character in the book, was obsessed with the last words of famous people, I also love these last words I found after a little digging:
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898): "Take away those pillows. I shall need them no more."
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904): "It's been a long time since I've had champagne."
E.E. Cummings (1894-1963): "I'm going to sharpen the axe before I put it up, dear."
And Abraham Lincoln? He was laughing at a line that was ad-libbed in the play he was watching right before he was shot.
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