“He was a dying man looking down on the surgeons trying to save him.”
“That's why you have to save the dying man. Because you want him around to keep saving you.”
“Fortune or misfortune, a man can but try; there's not to be done without trying - accept laying down and dying.”
“The little boy Hannibal died in 1945 out there in the snow trying to save his sister. His heart died with Mischa. What is he now? There's not a word for it yet. For lack of a better word, we'll call him a monster.”
“Adrift and unmoored, she had tried again and again to throw him a rope to save him from the raging waters. And now he no longer felt like a drowning man at sea. Nora... the siren and the goddess, the ship and the wine-dark sea. She would either save him or end him.”
“You see a man drowning, you must try to save him even if you cannot swim.”