“It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.”
“You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting, shedding your own history and your own future, leaving behind everything you ever were or wanted or believed in.”
“Stretching one arm behind him, the man passed his hand over the horse's coat, his own skin transformed, or skin which had transformed into him. ("The Centaur")”
“The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.”
“May a man live well-, and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.”
“You can tell about people by their absences. By the shape of the emptiness they leave behind.”