“cause when there's life there's still hope”

“Death, I discovered that day, is not frightening, because it is utterly still. And it is still because death, when it comes, is always over. There's only terror in it if you fear it and ever since my first death, Wes' death, I have never feared it. It is simply the end of a story, and if you've loved the story then it is sad. And sometimes, as it was with Wes, it is an agony of sadness.”

“There's a mouse in here with me. He's sitting there in the light of the lamp, looking up at me. He seems as surprised to see me as I am to see him. There he goes. I can hear him still, scurrying about somewhere under the hayrick. I think he's gone now. I hope he comes back. I miss him already.”

“There's room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world - that's what I think.”

“If there's one thing I can't abide it's fanatics of any kind, and religious ones are the worst of all.”

“If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.”

“When you're young you can't work out the age of an adult - they're just quite old, old, or very old.”