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

“The dead were just the dead, neither awful nor remarkable. History separated out these individuals and preserved their names where others were obilterated for ever.”

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

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

“Got to go on, haven't we? Life goes on.”

“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.”