It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.

The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint. - Van Houten

But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

To be human is to catch the falling person.

Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.

I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable." Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice.

I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.