1. When I was your age, I wanted to grow up to be just like Sherlock Holmes. I thought that was one of the greatest things anyone could ever aspire to be — or at least, that I could someday hope to be. I never would have dreamed that someday someone might think the same thing about...me.
2. I know, deep down, that I made the right decision in not throwing you off the owl somewhere over the Ruins of Alph — but you certainly make me reconsider it every time I'm within fifty feet of you.
3. Thank you for making one of my lifelong dreams come true. I just wish I had more to offer you in return than talk of peace and the hope of a better future.
4. You simply have to tell me where you shop for furniture. I can't remember the last time I sat in a chair so comfortable.
5. There's so much I want to teach you — about the world, about history, about philosophy and innovation and all the great minds that came before you — to give you all the tools you need to forge your own set of wings. But if I can only teach you one thing in all the world, I hope it's simply the strength of conviction to keep dreaming bigger and soaring higher. You don't need me to give you the tools; you've already got everything you need to find your way to the stars on your own.
6. Next time, let's play chess. But I should warn you, you won't find me as easy an opponent as my Porygon was — and somehow, I suspect you'll enjoy that.
7. Ivy would've threatened me in exactly the same way. But I'm going to tell you something that I wouldn't have told her — intentionally or not, I've hurt enough people in my life as it is, and it doesn't take the greatest detective in the world to see that he's been hurt more times than he ever should've. Don't think for a minute that I'm going to be one more of them. ...Oh, and more importantly, don't think for a minute that you could ever find me if I didn't want to be found.
8. I've only just met you, but I like you already. That doesn't mean I'm going to make things easy on you by any means, but rest assured, you've earned my approval. For whatever that's worth in the grand scheme of things.
9. Trying to make sense of all the things you make me feel is proving to be the greatest, most challenging mystery I've ever been tasked with solving. A philosopher once said that it's only by reaching for the impossible that we learn what is possible, and you make me think that maybe, just maybe, something I once thought impossible might be possible, too. If anyone could convince me to change, it's you, and I truly don't think you can — which is what makes it all the more fascinating, that sometimes I'm almost eager to see you try.
10. Every girl should be so lucky as to have a father like you.
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2. I know, deep down, that I made the right decision in not throwing you off the owl somewhere over the Ruins of Alph — but you certainly make me reconsider it every time I'm within fifty feet of you.
3. Thank you for making one of my lifelong dreams come true. I just wish I had more to offer you in return than talk of peace and the hope of a better future.
4. You simply have to tell me where you shop for furniture. I can't remember the last time I sat in a chair so comfortable.
5. There's so much I want to teach you — about the world, about history, about philosophy and innovation and all the great minds that came before you — to give you all the tools you need to forge your own set of wings. But if I can only teach you one thing in all the world, I hope it's simply the strength of conviction to keep dreaming bigger and soaring higher. You don't need me to give you the tools; you've already got everything you need to find your way to the stars on your own.
6. Next time, let's play chess. But I should warn you, you won't find me as easy an opponent as my Porygon was — and somehow, I suspect you'll enjoy that.
7. Ivy would've threatened me in exactly the same way. But I'm going to tell you something that I wouldn't have told her — intentionally or not, I've hurt enough people in my life as it is, and it doesn't take the greatest detective in the world to see that he's been hurt more times than he ever should've. Don't think for a minute that I'm going to be one more of them. ...Oh, and more importantly, don't think for a minute that you could ever find me if I didn't want to be found.
8. I've only just met you, but I like you already. That doesn't mean I'm going to make things easy on you by any means, but rest assured, you've earned my approval. For whatever that's worth in the grand scheme of things.
9. Trying to make sense of all the things you make me feel is proving to be the greatest, most challenging mystery I've ever been tasked with solving. A philosopher once said that it's only by reaching for the impossible that we learn what is possible, and you make me think that maybe, just maybe, something I once thought impossible might be possible, too. If anyone could convince me to change, it's you, and I truly don't think you can — which is what makes it all the more fascinating, that sometimes I'm almost eager to see you try.
10. Every girl should be so lucky as to have a father like you.