He imagined his past gone, along with his future. Death was the understanding of the immediate present: that there is finally nothing else.

“There are so many books I mean to read, and things I mean to see.”

“I would die rather than live without you. I would die the same way he died. I c…”

“Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.”

“Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciat…”