“She was a wolf. She was death, devourer of the worlds.”

“He could not stand. It was notThat he could not thrive, he was bornWith everything but the will –That can be deformed, just like a limb.Death was more interesting to him.Life could not get his attention.”

“And after all this time,I’ll still die for you,and I’ll die trying.”

“Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter.”

“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can’t avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.’s lover. Now it’s like an empty house.”

“If you are a Buddhist, inspire yourself by thinking of the bodhisattva. If you are a Christian, think of the Christ, who came not to be served by others but to serve them in joy, in peace, and in generosity. For these things, these are not mere words, but acts, which go all the way, right up to their last breath. Even their death is a gift, and resurrection is born from this kind of death. (157)”

“Then, what’s the purpose of the mission?”“To save us all.”“You can’t save all of us if you murder them.”

“Nothing in Life is Promised Except Death”

“Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.”

“I tried to hang myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying.”

“One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don’t just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. This loss might even be what affects you most.”

“Here at lastWe shall be free;the Almighty hath not builtHere for his envy, will not drive us hence:Here we may reign secure, and in my choiceTo reign is worth ambition though in Hell:Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.”

“Oh Julie, wouldn’t I know if you were dead? Wouldn’t I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart?”

“…Matt. I didn’t think they’d kill you… I’m so sorry…”

“DEATH: “Mostly they aren’t too keen to see me. They fear the sunless lands. But they enter your realm each night without fear.”MORPHEUS: “And I am far more terrible than you, sister.”