You needn't die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end and ka is always served.

Lover," she whispers, and closes her eyes. It falls upon her. Love is like dying.

You know," Glen Bateman said, looking out toward Grand Junction in the early light of morning, "I've heard the saying 'That sucks' for years without really being sure of what it meant. Now I think I know.

If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don't.