“When everything you're about to see is too much, look up and see that the sky is clear and know that everything is going to be all right.”

“It's all a great mystery...Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes”

“You think you know everything that's happening around you. But you can't always see clearly when your staning right there in the picture.”

“It’s easy to do right when everything goes right. But let everything go wrong, and see how difficult it becomes.”

“Death is knowing you're about to die,' says Mam. It's seeing the dead and seeing the living all at once. It's wanting not to die and not to live. It's wanting to stay with the last breath when the dead and the living are all around you, and touching you, and whispering, It's all right, Mam. Everything's all right. But there's no way of staying with the last breath. You have to die.”

“I've always had a good memory a good head for facts although when something is behind you it changes when you try to capture it in words. The past is slippery that way. I know all about that. And even the present is hard to pin down. You think you know everything that's happening around you. But you can't always see clearly when you're standing right there in the picture.”