“You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.”

“You dont have to live forever just live.”

“Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.”

“Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life. You don't have to live forever. You just have to live.”

“Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.”

“But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can't pick out the pieces you like and leave the rest. Being part of the whole thing, that's the blessing.”

“Here, child, said Mae hastily Hide your eyes. Boys? Are you decent? What'd you put on to swim in? I got Winnie Foster in the house? For goodness sake ma said Jesse emerging from the stairwell . You think were going to march around in our altogether with Winnie Foster in the house? And Miles behind him sain we just jumped in with our clothes on too tired to shed them It was true. They stood there side by side with their wet clothes plastered to their skins, little pools of water collecting at their feet.”