He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy.

“And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.”

“And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that wh…”

“Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encomp…”

“When we talk about our lives, long or short, brief and tragic or enduring beyon…”