“What more does one ask of life, really, but to stagger from moment to moment with a reason to wake and wait for the next reason to wake?”
“Daddy is trying really fugging hard to think of a not-terrifying reason why you'd wake Daddy up in the middle of the night to ask that fugging question. But no. No. Daddy does not have a match or a lighter.”
“In every waking moment, it is our next choice that makes us who we are.”
“The smallest sprout shows there is really no death;And if ever there was, it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,And ceas’d the moment life appear’d.All goes onward and outward—nothing collapses;And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”
“We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream : it may be so at the moment after death.”
“For a moment I had felt elation as on the instant of waking before one remembers.”