Saved the kids,” he said.
“Temporarily,” I pointed out.
“All salvation is temporary,” Augustus shot back. “I bought them a minute. Maybe that’s the minute that buys them an hour, which is the hour that buys them a year. No one’s gonna buy them forever, Hazel Grace, but my life bought them a minute. And that’s not nothing.
Augustus and Hazel, “The Fault in our Stars” (John Green)
Augustus’s character in a video game had just died saving a bunch of children from a grenade.
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