“Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.”
“Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront.”
“What came for them? Not death. Just the end of living.”
“Exactly what the great white eats in an emergency is a mystery ichthyologists solved by the late twentieth century after decades of investigation: whatever it wishes.”
“I wish to go on living even after my death.”
“What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death.”