“With every year that I grow older, I also draw closer to (my loved ones) to the day when we will once again be together. So I march through the deepening shadows, serene and unafraid, because I know that at the end of my journey they will be waiting for me.”

“The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.”

“I’m a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellersare despised.”

“The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn’t look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.”