“[...] he felt that he too was only a baby, with the chance to live without shame, without the need for consolation for a life lived wrong, a chance to be again innocent, simply and impossibly happy.”

“She wrote, I wish I could be a girl again, with a chance to live my life again. I have suffered so much more than I needed to. And the joys I have felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently.”

“It's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life.”

“Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.”

“[...] I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life [...]”

“Or maybe what he fears is just the opposite: that nobody is looking; that his death, like his life, is without purpose; that there is neither greater good nor evil--only people living and dying because their bodies function and then do not; that the universe is a rip.”

“How did her life live itself without her.”