“Except that death collected everyone. Death is like that. Relentlessly efficient.”
“Everyone facing death, especially premature death, like us, will be kicking themselves about each wasted hour.”
“Love is like war, except without all the blood and death and stuff.”
“I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible.”
“Nobody's death is impending." ..."Well technically everyone's death is impending.”
“... the pursuit of origins is a way of rescuing territory from death and oblivion, a reconquest that ought to be patient, devoted, relentless and faithful.”