“I lie awake for a long time, wondering which would be more foolish, to prepare for something that may never happen, or not to prepare for something that might.”
“Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.”
“One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.”
“Because' I repeated, as a breeze blew over us, "sometimes things just happen. That aren't expected. Or on the list." "Such as?" he asked"I don't know," I said, frustrated. "That's the point. It would be out of the blue, taking us by surprise. Something we might not be prepared for.""But we will be prepared," he said, confused. "We'll have the list.”
“You may say suicide is a loss of control and cowardly. Foolish as it may sound, I am prepared to argue.”
“You ever think that life is something that happens and that you’re not ever completely prepared for?”