“There is nothing like fear to complicate one's consciousness, inducing previously unknown levels of reflection”

“He had no conscious knowledge of death, but like every animal of the Wild, he possessed the instinct of death. To him it stood as the greatest of hurts. It was the very essence of the unknown; it was the sum of the terrors of the unknown, the one culminating and unthinkable catastrophe that could happen to him, about which he knew nothing and about which he feared everything.”

“She had always consciously or unconsciously formed fear into a simple equation: fears = unknown.”

“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”

“Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.”

“When he recalls it in later years, he will wonder if he is distorting it, embellishing it, because each time he consciously recalls her, that forms a new memory, a new imprint to be stacked on top of the previous one. He fears that too much handling will make it crumble.”