“Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)”
“Sometimes the briefest moments capture us, force us to take them in, and demand that we live the rest of our lives in reference to them.”
“When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.”
“There is more in us than we know if we could be made to see it; perhaps, for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.”
“There were worse things than death, as she'd discovered. Sometimes living took far more courage. Facing another day. Enduring. Those things took strength. Far more than dying.”
“Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.”