“Thy only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die, John and Mary die, John and Mary die.”
“There is no hell, John Temsland. Each man, when he dies, sees the landscape of his own soul.”
“Hello, Mary.'It was like hearing a note of divine calm after a dissonant passage of music. My confusion died away.”
“When we were kids we always used to say, ‘Okay, whoever dies first, get a message through.’When John died, I thought, ‘Well, maybe we’ll get a message,’ because I know he knew the deal. I haven’t had a message from John.”
“John: 'Have mercy. I don't want to die!'Sita: 'Then you should never have been born.”
“Four generations of women--"I'm a woman," Mary said to herself--heading off on a journey in a car. One of the dead, one of them dying, one of the driving, one of them just staring out.”