“You get use to someone—start to like them, even—and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves.”

“Part of me wanted this more than anything else in the world—to have someone to hang out with, be like everyone else for a while. The rest of me screamed to get the hell out of there, not to get sucked in.”

“I don't understand, Jem. I don't understand why you'd leave me. Why would you that?”

“It's okay to talk about it. Death is so normal, I don't know why everyone gets so hung up about it. We all have to deal with it. Most people that you talk to have lost someone, but nobody talks about it.”

“However cozy things seemed, the facts of life were the same. You couldn't escape death: It would get us all in the end.”

“And just when I though things were starting to get better, everything had gone wrong again.”

“You can not escape death: the end always reach you.”