“To live in the hearts of those we leave behind is to not die at all”
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
“To be lost and forgotten-to be abandoned-is a shared and terrible fear, just as our fondest hope, as we grow older, is that we might leave some parts of us behind in the hearts of those we love and in that way live on.”
“To live in the hearts of those we love is never to die.”
“...death does leave a daunting array of practical tasks: all those possessions that you were forced to leave behind had to be sorted and packed and redistributed in the living world.”
“How well can we really know another person? Peolpe can be in your lives for years - they can fill your lives. But all you really know of them are the stories they tell you. And then they die. They always leave a mystery behind.”