It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.

What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope.

I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed.

I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it.

So," he asked. "How's death?" "Hard," she said. "It just keeps going.

Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.

Something feels weird," he told Laura. That wasn't the first thing he said to her. The first thing was "I love you," because it's a good thing to say if you can mean it, and Shadow did.