Great Expectations and a Tale of Two Quotes

From my diary in 2016, a story that will stay with me forever

(While this may not be the most stunning piece of literature I have written, not a day goes by since I wrote this essay, that I don't think about it.)

I was talking to this honey-eyed boy with leukemia, whose mother had pushed him into therapy, although I'm pretty sure he didn't need it. He didn't have very long to live, but whatever he told me that day,…