"The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before."
"You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect."
"It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing."
"So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay.-- Robert Frost"
"Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of."
"The thing about dead people... The thing is you sound like a bastard if you don't romanticize them, but the truth is... complicated, I guess."