The world of the terminally ill is the world of neither the living nor the dead. I have watched others since I watched my father, and always with a sense of their strangeness. They sit and speak, and are spoken to, and listen, and even smile, but in spirit they have already moved away from us and there is no way we can enter their shadowy no-manโs-land.
P. D. JamesThere is no point in regretting any part of the past. The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.
P. D. JamesSuicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.
P. D. Jamesyou'd like the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. That must be the most futile oath anyone ever swears.
P. D. James