Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.

Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.

Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully

She's forgetting,' Ellen said to Jack, plumping herself down on a chair. 'All of her life is leaking out of her. Soon there will be nothing left.

The mirror had broken into millions of pieces and the wind blew them all over the world. If a person got a speck in their eye, the person would only see the ugly side of things from then on, but if a piece got in their blood and it reached their heart, it would freeze into a solid block of ice and they couldn't feel anything anymore

The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.

Don't you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it.