Quotes from Brendan Halpin

Yeah, well. You're my best friend, you know, and I love you.

if you wait for everyone else to do the right thing before you do the right thing, then you'll never do what's right. You have to do what's right even if other people aren't. Maybe even especially if other people aren't.

Do you know why I love mathematics? Because it blew your mind for free when you couldn't get drugs? Eccles snorted in surprise. Well, yes, but there's another reason.

I feel like our whole friendship was a lie. She's probably the only person I've ever really opened up to, and the whole time she was hiding stuff from me. I just don't feel like I can trust somebody like that.

And sometimes I sit there late at night or early in the morning, and I think about the vastness of the ocean, of the sky, of the spaces between us and the nearest stars, about the incredible, unfathomable bigness of it all.

We all smiled because it was the truth: Living did take a lot more guts than giving up.