Jack

“There’s a kind of time travel in letters, isn’t there? I imagine you laughing at my small joke; I imagine you groaning; I imagine you throwing my words away. Do I have you still? Do I address empty air and the flies that will eat this carcass? You could leave me for five years, you could return never—and I have to write the rest of this not knowing.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“En enkelt gang er De sunket dybt. Lad nu fremtiden vise, hvor højt De kan nå op.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Return of Sherlock Holmes

“All over now. He is either in joy or nothingness.
(So why grieve?
The worst of it, for him, is over.)
Because I loved him so and am in the habit of loving him and that love must take the form of fussing and worry and doing.
Only there is nothing left to do.”
― George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo

“You're a good person - she said in her ethereal voice. The Gods are benevolent. May they forgive you and protect you.”

”You were a good person when you were alive too. Did the Gods forgive and protect you?”
― Priest, Guardian: Zhen Hun (Novel) Vol. 1