Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world

What's wrong with being number 2?

What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb. "Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, for one thing, what happens next? Where do we go? Is it what we imagined?" That's big. "Yes. But there's something else." What else? He leaned forward. "Being forgotten," he whispered.

Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.

But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.

All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.

She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.