Lay

“Thanks be to God we lived so long and did so much good.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“She emptied her mind of all thought of herself, of her children, of all anger, of all rebellion, of all questions. Then with a profound and deeply willed desire to believe, to be heard, as she had done every day since the murder of Carlo Rizzi, she said the necessary prayers for the soul of Michael Corleone.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“And you'll always love me won't you?
Yes
And the rain won't make any difference?
No”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms