“Christmas works like glue, it keeps us all sticking together.”

“The dead and not-yet dead, we are company all together.”

“I will continue my path, but I will keep a memory always.”

“The dead do not harm us, only the alive.”

“The richness of the whole world reduced to a choice that was not a choice at all, but a sentence.”

“Love. The wide sea that one word conjures up, all the currents and tides and storms and oily swells of it.”

“I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.”