“Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet.”

“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”

“We all have bad days, but one thing is true; no cloud is so dark that the sun can't shine through.”

“This is where the story starts, in this threadbare room. The walls are exploding. The windows have turned into telescopes. Moon and stars are magnified in this room. The sun hangs over the mantelpiece. I stretch out my hand and reach the corners of the world. The world is bundled up in this room. Beyond the door, where the river is, where the roads are, we shall be. We can take the world with us when we go and sling the sun under your arm. Hurry now, it's getting late. I don't know if this is a happy ending but here we are let loose in open fields.”

“Push the door open the discovery could be, great that when the rain is long gone the sun might shine”

“Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207”