“Being shaken to death by a Hawaiian tourist look-alike was not how Arena imagined her death.”
“How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.”
“To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a being with eyes has no interest in continuing to see. Death—however “humane”—is a harm for humans and nonhumans alike.”
“The dank smell of death in that alleyway haunted her senses, her memories. She kept thinking this was the end—this was what death felt like, what death looked like. Death was a …‘Vampire,’ she whispered.”
“The two moments are much alike: birth and death are made of the same fabric.”
“Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death”