“Once we've tasted being alive, we can't go back to being dead. Aliveness in God is addictive.”
“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
“Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person's eyes maybe died back in childhood.”
“Like being alive one moment and dead the next.”
“We can't go back, Alexa", he said. " We can't go back once we've started growing up, and the world can't be made simple again.”
“And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.”