If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.

He was beginning to understand: You were treated special and, later, something horrible would be told to you.

She liked to imagine that when she passed the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was.

I fell in love with you again; While you were away - Jack Salmon

Almost everyone in heaven has someone on Earth they watch, a loved one, a friend or even a stranger who was once kind, who offered warm food or a bright smile when one of us had needed it. And when I wasn’t watching I could hear the others talking to those they loved on Earth: just as fruitlessly as me, I’m afraid. A one-sided card cajoling and coaching of the young, a one way loving and desiring of their mates, a single-sided card that could never get signed.

I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.

You save yourself or you remain unsaved.