“Death almost always rearranges life, sometimes for the worse, many times for the better,”

“There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.”

“I wanted to live a proper life with deep, interwoven relationships for better or worse, which only death could separate.”

“Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change, if you effectively stop time, if you prevent the possibility of the alteration of an individual's circumstances — and that must include at least the possibility that they alter for the worse — then you don't have life after death; you just have death.”

“Sometimes it has to feel worse before it feels better.”

“Sometimes men change for the better. Sometimes men change for the worse. And often, very often, given time and opportunity . . .’ He waved his flask around for a moment, then shrugged. ‘They change back.”