“When the door opens, I realize that the only thing worse than waiting is the moment you realize a decision has been made.”

“The only thing worse than feeling that you are going to die is the realization that you probably won't.”

“The only thing that feels worse than being stuck in a situation that makes you unhappy is realizing that you are not ready or willing to change whatever it is.”

“You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known.”

“You realize something once, when you are nine, and then you realize it again when you are ten, and you realize when you are eleven, twelve, but every year you see that what you thought you understood a year ago, no, wait it is ten times worse. And your heart fills up with lead.”

“At the door of life, by the gate of breath,There are worse things waiting for men than death.”