“He had discovered Time and Death and God.”

“It was then as he discovered that death could elude him that the fear of death returned.”

“His submissive death was the surest proof that he wholly believed the faith he had lived. He had no regrets or misgivings. "One world at a time," he said to Channing, who was speculating on the hereafter. When someone else inquired whether he had made his peace with God, he answered, "We have never quarreled.”

“Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable. ”

“I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death.”

“He had lived a very long time, and only since he gained Anna had he learned to fear. He’d discovered that he had never been brave before—just indifferent. She had taught him that to be brave, you have to fear losing something.”