“...nothing is settled...everything matters.”
“Everything is honored, but nothing matters.”
“Death is nothing, nor life either, for that matter. To die, to sleep, to pass into nothingness, what does it matter? Everything is an illusion.”
“It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.”
“Nothing matters but him and us and this, the way he makes me feel like I’m everything to him. Sometime in the last month, he’s become everything to me.”
“This new subterfuge is, of course, calculated to deceive the simple and innocent into thinking that the matter is settled.”