Quicksilver

by Dean Koontz

I have always been an optimist, because pessimists seldom have any fun and usually fret their way into one of the horrible fates they spend their lives worrying about.

Grief should drive you to your knees, but if you stay there forever, you’re saying you know better than God how the world should work. And you don’t.”

It is human nature to know we die and still to disbelieve it; otherwise, we might not carry on.