Talk:Augustus Waters/@comment-75.25.128.175-20140213083011/@comment-101.114.50.129-20140502105303

A lot of people would say he was important because he said all those quirky lines and stuff, you know, like his metaphors, and his analogies. To be blunt, sometimes I think all his poetic speeches were a lot like whinging. I'm not saying he was a whinger, but that they were just a method of coping. I think he shows how finding a depth to life made him stronger, and gave a bit more colour to a life that was draining out.

To me, that's part of what tfios was about, finding that colour to bring to a grey and perpetually taxing world. Finding beauty in things that you can keep with you. I think that's who Gus was, someone who kept persisting to find beauty in things, even if they were hard things. His words themselves, though sometimes insufferable, were beautiful.

That's why I loved Gus, because he was such a beautiful character. Not for his words, but for the meaning behind them.