“I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants.”

“I wish we could go to the movies.”

“They forget that we, too, have earned the right to live! So I say if we are going to die, my friend, let us die trying, not sitting.”

“My friends are under strict instruction that the moment I die, my heart should be taken out of my chest and thrown into the sea. My body should be buried in a still-undisclosed location, but only they will know it. Everybody said that I was going to die when I was 27, but now I’m 28. I fell out of a carriage when I was 11, and I almost died, so I’ve jumped the queue. I’m going to be alive until I’m 100—that’s my plan.”

“...I'll never forget going out to dinner with my parents to an elegant restaurant. My very proper Bostonian mother leaned over and said to me, 'Just what are you going to do if the baby gets hungry while we're here, dear?' The baby and I were already hooked up, very discreetly and my mother couldn't tell. I just chuckled and said, 'I don't know Mom.”

“I am not afraid to die because I know that when we go, we will go together. It is living without you that would be unbearable.”