“...the antidote to death was and always would be the heat and fury of life itself.”
“Everything I have, my very life itself, is yours. That always has and always will extend beyond death for me.”
“Growth or stagnation? There is no in-between. Life always seeks more of itself and death picks up the slack.”
“Work is always an antidote to depression.”
“It seemed that a woman should remember the night a new life began inside her. Such a miracle should not be the result of routine or an ordinary coming together. Life should begin in a cataclysm of heat and fury bathed in the sweat of passion and urgency.”
“He was allying himself to science, for what was science but the absence of prejudice backed by the presence of money? His life would be full of machinery, which was the antidote to superstition ...”