“Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a bit of difference. All that remains is a desert.”
“[H]istory, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesn't make sense. Stories make things make sense, but the way they do that is to leave out anything that doesn't fit. And often that is quite a lot.”
“The optimist and the pessimist both die in the end, but each lives is life in a completely different way.”
“Maybe there’s no such thing as real truth, just lots and lots of different ways of explaining the same thing.”
“Vulnerability is a pretty scary thing. You can feel naked in a lot of different ways.”
“There are lots of different ways grown-ups disappear. It's lonely being the one left behind.”