Alexandra

“Okay. I need to be less afraid of death.” I closed my eyes. “But there’s the fear of pain—” “Why fear something that is over so quickly?” “And then there’s the fear of what comes after. Do I end up here? Do I just stop existing?” “Why fear nonexistence?” he asked. “Do you feel afraid when you think of the past, before you existed?” “No.”
― C.N. Crawford, Lord of Embers