“As well as remembering too little, I have seen too much”

“Death, when it's right there it doesn't seem too huge and terrible to let into your mind.”

“I've grieved enough for his life cut short and for mine for running on for so long with so little in it. It's weakness now, but I suppose I am crying out of a general sense of loss. Maybe I am mourning for the human condition.”

“Anything that makes it easier to understand, makes it a little easier to bear.”

“I am afraid of losing what I have already valued.”

“Some things I can never forget. I must not. Otherwise what do I have left?”

“Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.”