Eternal Life Quotes

“Did you ever notice that when you read the same book again and again, the book doesn’t change, but you do?”
― Dara Horn, Eternal Life

“Yet it was this granddaughter, of all of her articulate descendants, who announced online to the universe: My grandmother just told us she can’t sign off on her will because she CAN’T DIE. #crazyoldlady Oh child, she thought, you have no idea just how crazy I am.”
― Dara Horn, Eternal Life

“Many days and years and people had passed before she understood that the details themselves were the still and sacred things, that there was nothing else, that the curtain of daily life itself was holy, that behind it was only a void.”
― Dara Horn, Eternal Life

“Then there were other reasons for living too, ones that mortals rarely thought of but that raged like fires in Rachel’s mind: To correct mistakes. To avoid regret. To accept regret. To change. But none of these seemed possible either.”
― Dara Horn, Eternal Life

“Eventually Honi asked God to kill him, because he realized he had become superfluous. Which in fact was the entire purpose of life, to live in such a way that one made oneself superfluous. And therein lay the root of the problem. There was no point in any of it, none at all, unless one had plans to leave.”
― Dara Horn, Eternal Life

“Maybe it’s still worth it to me, even if it doesn’t last forever,” he said. “Maybe you’re still worth it to me.”
― Dara Horn, Eternal Life

“She didn’t know exactly when she had first felt the sensation of regret. It was a physical sensation, a shudder that began deep in the stomach and traveled up through the throat; it was distinct from remorse, which one felt first in the throat and only later in the gut. Yet it was regret that she couldn’t handle. She did anything she could to avoid it—including the initial bargain, the one that began everything. And now this one.”
― Dara Horn, Eternal Life

“Relief engulfed her, disguised as happiness.”
― Dara Horn, Eternal Life

“Which in fact was the entire purpose of life, to live in such a way that one made oneself superfluous.”
― Dara Horn, Eternal Life

“Rachel heard her own words and felt like she had turned into one of her grandchildren, those insanely selfish creatures who actually believed they had lives independent of anyone else’s.”
― Dara Horn, Eternal Life

“Rachel bit her lip, as she did every time she heard a question beginning with the word when.”
― Dara Horn, Eternal Life

“The children are my only reason for living.”
― Dara Horn, Eternal Life

“She raised her children, all of them. She raised them, nurtured them, watched them love or hate or succeed or fail, gave each of them her private excesses of possibilities, observed, sometimes from afar, what they did with them, watched her own ideas wither or grow. Then she finally watched her children die, and she was jealous.”
― Dara Horn, Eternal Life

“two thousand years.” “Maybe you’ve been flying,”
― Dara Horn, Eternal Life

“But you and I are the only ones who know we’ll never get there, that nothing is ever over. I feel like I’m always falling. I’ve been falling without landing”
― Dara Horn, Eternal Life

“Either brave or stupid, Rachel thought. Of course, everything brave was also stupid. Sadly the same could not be said of the reverse.”
― Dara Horn, Eternal Life

“No one had any idea of how thick a layer of arbitrary conventions enshrouded a naked soul.”
― Dara Horn, Eternal Life

“That's the problem. We don't grow. We're like an old book, full of stories and also full of errors, and no one can completely understand us, even though many people try. But the problem is that we don't change. Only the people around us change.”
― Dara Horn, Eternal Life

“You can’t only think about endings,” he said. “There’s no point to that. Endings are something you and I will never understand.”
― Dara Horn, Eternal Life