When you stopped wishing things wouldn’t fall apart, you’d stop suffering when they did.

“Well I don't remember exactly what I called her, but it was something along the…”

“So hard to die.' I don't doubt that it is, but it cannot be much harder than be…”

“The Colonel's hand was so little, and I grabbed it tight, his cold seeping into…”

“That's part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truth…”