“If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.”

“You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.”

“It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse." Page 316”

“Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing.”

“I was weeping because Richard Parker had left me so unceremoniously. What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell...it's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse”

“Things didn't turn out the way they used to, but what can you do? You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.”

“Things didn't turn out the way they're supposed to, but what can you do? You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.”