We might just make it. Did that thought ever cross your brain? Well, regardless, I would rather take my chance out there on the ocean, that to stay here and die on this shithole island spending the rest of my life talking to a god damn volleyball.

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• Don’t worry Wilson, I’ll do all the paddling. You just hang on.
• I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?
• Shut up, Wilson!
• We live and we die by time. And we must not commit the sin of losing our track on time.