The doctor frowned upon drinking and often expressed wonderment at men who willingly made imbeciles of themselves.

I didn't show up here to give your life purpose now that your life's over. That's up to you to figure out.

And red is not the color of apples or roses or the dresses that pretty girls wear in the summertime. That is not the color of red at all.

When you look death in the eye and death blinks first, nothing seems impossible.

A child has little defense against the sight of a parent laid low. Parents, like the earth beneath our feet and the sun above our heads, are immutable objects, eternal and reliable. If one should fall, who might vouch the sun itself won't fall, burning, into the sea?

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.

Soon I will fall asleep and I will wake from this terrible dream. The endless night will fall, and I will rise. I long for that night. I do not fear it. I have had my fill of fear. I have stared too long into the abyss, and now the abyss stares back at me.