“The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10)”
“Not caring for their lives' is it?Why, what in the world is there that we should care for if it's not our lives, the only gift the Lord never offers us a second time.”
“He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.”
“The living carry us inside them like pearls. We survive only so long as they remember us.”
“Surviving is one thing," he said quietly, his voice suddenly calmer, "but you've got to have a reason to do it. There's no point in living if you don't have anything worth living for.”
“He was agitated for some reason that he could not name. (page 35)”