“Life is hard. After all, it kills you.”
“After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.”
“I hope you don’t mind my joining you,” said Leanne. I minded. After all, she’d tried to kill me. A girl in a novel would say it was hard to believe, but it wasn’t.”
“We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions.We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame.In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness,all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing.”
“After all, you’re only an immortal until someone manages to kill you. After that, you were just long-lived.”
“After all, what doesn't kill you... just really pisses you off.”