“He sighed and knew that life was full of ‘if only’ for everyone”
“For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.”
“It was the forest’s fault. Those two handsome woodcutters. An evil place, the forest, everyone knew it, full of temptations and imps...”
“His brother, he thinks, was in love with everyone he knew.”
“A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time; he wants to fight everyone, and he wants to curl up in a ball and hide in a cupboard somewhere. He wants to say sorry to everyone, and he wants everyone to know just how badly they've all let him down.”
“He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.”