“One can live without having survived”

“Heswept the ears to the floor with his arm and heldthe last of his wine in the air. Something for yourpoetry, no? he said. Some of the ears on the floorcaught this scrap of his voice. Some of the ears onthe floor were pressed to the ground.”

“The worst is over, the worst is yet to come”

“In the night I come to you and it seems a shame to waste my deepest shudders on a wall of a man.”

“Surviving is a basic thing. Getting by. Staying alive in whatever way we can. It doesn't mean we make right choices or drive fine cars or have good jobs. It means we found a way not to die. I survived.”

“Faith may want answers, but somehow it is able to survive without them.”

“I can't take one breath, not one single breath, without knowing that I love you.”