"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living"
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

"It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.” ~spoken by Augustus McCrae"
— Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove)

"Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England."
— John Irving (The Cider House Rules)