Best feeling of my life, just to be on the team, with all the seniors, it just didn't seem real. It's by far the best experience I've had in hockey and I just knew I wanted to get there again, especially as an older player as I've had more of an impact.

It's hard to put into words the disappointment and shock that it's all over now. I always thought I had so much time ahead of me, that we always had next year, but I don't have that next year anymore.

Life seems to slow down when looking through a camera lens.

Once you get the little voice in your head to stop talking, you can finally start listening to yourself.

It would have been really unfair had we not been gifted the next precious months. [...] Don’t you see a bigger picture for us both here, Rune? You came back to Blossom Grove only a few weeks after I had been sent home to live out the rest of my life. To enjoy the limited few months granted by medication. [...] For you, it’s unfair. I believe the opposite. We came back together for a reason. Perhaps it’s a lesson we may struggle to learn until it’s learned.

To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.