Don‘t you just hate when a book ends? I really want to read more from Gerald. I wonder how he‘s doin‘.

You had heard of a caterpillar that couldn't turn into a butterfly. And you would like to examine how it would feel to be denied such a beautiful thing. You would like to know how it feels for the caterpillar to watch other caterpillars transform while all the time knowing he would never have that opportunity.
Cecelia Ahern, One Hundred Names

When you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries while you rejoice - Mosquitoland David Arnold

Becoming real simply because he'd appeared on a few thousand TV screens. Growing up with a sense that media events were real, and personal events were not. Anything that didn't happen on television didn't happen. Even as he hated conventional programming, even as he regarded it as the cud of ruminants, still it defined his sense of personal unreality; and left him unfinished.