“...for, after all, we have nothing to lose but our aitches.”
“We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.”
“The ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose.”
“You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.”
“Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.”
“In a strange way we were free. We'd reached the end of the line. We had nothing more to lose. Our privacy, our liberty, our dignity: all of this was gone and we were stripped down to the bare bones of our selves”