Jaime

“They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“To our friends,' he answered, 'we die every day, but to ourselves we die only at the end.”
― Djuna Barnes, Nightwood