Feelings aren't forever. Time waits for no one, but progress waits for man to enact it.

The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don’t.

Sometimes I'm afraid to go to sleep because of what I'm leaving behind.

Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't read anymore.

It was all very strange, Mr. Gray thought, as he wiped the coffee canister clean with a sponge. Very, very mysterious. You were born; you lived a whole life; and at the end, you wound up in a coffee canister. "Ah, well," he said out loud quietly. "That's just the way things are. Life's a funny business." Death, he supposed, was the punch line.

Every choice is limited. That's life.

And when I wake up it's wonderful, like I've been carried quietly onto a calm, peaceful shore, and the dream, and its meaning, has broken over me like a wave and is ebbing away now, leaving me with a single, solid certainty. I know now.