“To die trying would be better than to die without purpose.”

“And if I have to die trying, I will get out of here.”

“His three wives are huddled together on the bare mattress, one of them dying; when we're together, we form an alliance he can't touch. He's scared to even try.”

“Even the human race can't claim to be natural anymore. We are fake, dying things. How fitting that I would end up in this sham of a marriage.”

“I was born into a world that was already dying; I belong to it.”

“Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.”

“And here we are: two small dying things, as the world ends around us like falling autumn leaves.”