“I’d relived enough terrible events happening to cautious people to know that prudence wasn’t a guarantee for happiness.”
“... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.”
“People die, terrible things happen. I know this now. You can't pick up and leave everything behind because there is too much sadness in the world and not enough places to go.”
“Nothing that happens between two people is guaranteed to be private.”
“I’d accepted my judgment without question. Agreed to live a mortal life. I didn’t know my memories would come with me; didn’t know I’d relive them every day.Death would have been more merciful.”
“Happiness expanded like an explosion inside me – so extreme, so violent that I wasn’t sure I’d survive it.”