"You just use the future to escape the present."
"...if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane."
"People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to."
[Personally, what scares me about death is not the fact that I wouldn't be existing. It's just the fact that I wouldn't be existing HERE.]
"I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life."
"And what is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and onlly raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous."
[I have such a hard time imagining what real pain feels like... I've never broken anything, been in a horrible accident... Hopefully I'll never have to experience anything like that...]
"...we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth."
"When adults say, 'Teenagers think they are invincible' with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right thy are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail."