“I've never had a child," said Magnus, "but I know what it is to lose someone you love, for no better reason than that all humans must die."
"And?" said Catarina.
"So far," said Magnus, "life seems to me to be a matter of choosing love, over and over, even knowing that it makes you vulnerable, that it might hurt you later. Or even sooner. You just have no choice. You choose to love or you choose to live in an empty world with no one there but you. And that seems like a truly terrible way to spend eternity.”