What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.
What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool
Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.
...sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well.
Not being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another's words.
As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops.