She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die

As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.

We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it.

'Do you know,' he asked in a delicious accent, 'what Dom Pérignon said after inventing champagne?' 'No?' I said. 'He called out to his fellow monks, 'Come quickly: I am tasting the stars!'

To be abandoned like that! Shut out when you most need to be loved.