But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us.

I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.

And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together.

That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence

Can I ask you about Caroline Mathers?" "And you say there's no afterlife.

I really like umbrellas. It's like, I have a roof! I carry it with me! Umbrellas always amuse me.

We left. We did not say: Don't drive, You're drunk. We did not say: We aren't letting you in that car when you are upset. We did not say: We insist on going with you. We did not say: This can wait until tomorrow. Anything-everything-can wait.