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This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.

A person’s life may be a lonely thing by nature, but it is not isolated. To that life other lives are linked...

But it has finally hit me: she is neither a concept nor a symbol nor a metaphor. She actually exists: she has warm flesh and a spirit that moves. I never should have lost sight of that warmth and that movement. It took me twenty years to understand something so obvious. It always takes me a while to think of things, but this is a little too much. It may already be too late. But one way or another, I want to find her.

Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.

About all she could have done in that case was pray. But she knew this much: prayer works.

...but flesh that does not exist will never die, and promises unmade are never broken.

No matter how passionately or minutely he might attempt to rewrite the past, the present circumstances in which he found himself would remain generally unchanged. Time had the power to cancel all changes wrought by human artifice, overwriting all new revisions with further revisions, returning the flow to its original course.

The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you.

A person’s last moments are an important thing. You can’t choose how you’re born, but you can choose how you die.

Stupid accidents happen all the time, and the ones who get killed or badly wounded are usually the ones who were laughing.