“What's the difference between being dead, and just not knowing you're alive?”
“In order to know that you're dead, you have to be conscious. . . but if you're conscious, then you're not dead. the only thing you can know is being alive, so that's eternity.”
“What is the difference between being not yet born and having lived, being now dead?”
“I think i'm just breathing, that's all. And there's a difference between breathing and being alive.”
“I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)”
“No, it's just like when you're dead and you try to remember being alive, it'll be like thinking of winter on the hottest day of the year. You'll know it's true, but you won't really believe it.”