“There would be no chance to get to know death at all ...if it happened only once.”

“No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.”

“Though I can’t help feeling a sudden death cheats you of something. Death is an experience of life. You only get one death. I would like to be aware it was happening, even if that did mean enduring pain and fear.”

“The only thing I knew for sure at that moment was that David would be back.If I was gone when that happened, would he leave again? For good?David, do you know that’s a chance I can’t take?”

“You know those ducks in that lagoon right near Central Park south?That little lake?By any chance you happen to know where they go?The ducks,When it gets all frozen over?”

“Anything that happens all at once is just as likely to unhappen all at once, you know?”