“I wanted to live a proper life with deep, interwoven relationships for better or worse, which only death could separate.”

“Everyone fears catastrophes and disasters and crashes and deaths, and people who attack you in the dark. You made all that worse for me. I felt something might happen which would separate me from you, and I could not deal with life without you.”

“It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.”

“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.”

“You have this comet trail of your own lived life, sparks from which arrive in the head all the time, whether you want them or not - life has been lived but it is still all going on, in the mind for better and for worse.”

“Death almost always rearranges life, sometimes for the worse, many times for the better,”