"No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning."
"Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless."
"Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action."
"People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die."
"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."
"Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death."