“There were worse things than death, as she'd discovered. Sometimes living took far more courage. Facing another day. Enduring. Those things took strength. Far more than dying.”
“You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that be must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.”
“Men demonstrate their courage far more often in little things than in great.”
“I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with a fable of the changeless and the permanent. Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would be no longer the possibility of love dying.”
“Gifts were dangerous things, she thought. Sometimes one succeeded only in taking far more than one gave.”
“Sometimes the things in our heads are far worse than anything they could put in books or on film!!”