Karin

“Somewhere, out in the world, are the people who touched us, or loved us, or ran from us. In that way we will live on. If you go to the places we have been, you might meet someone who passed us once in a corridor but forgot us before we were even gone. We are in the back of hundreds of people’s photographs—moving, talking, blurring into the background of a picture two strangers have framed on their living room mantelpiece. And in that way, we will live on too. But it isn’t enough. It isn’t enough to have been a particle in the great extant of existence. I want, we want, more. We want for people to know us, to know our story, to know who we are and who we will be. And after we’ve gone, to know who we were.”
― Marianne Cronin, The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

“She was a barrier to my own mortality. While Bloom lived, death was a distant prospect. Now she’s gone I realise just how vulnerable I am.”
― Matthew Blake, Anna O

“There is an invisible, seemingly impenetrable veil between life and what comes after life, that is just beyond the grasp of our human consciousness and the realm of our physical senses. Our connection with the veil is a matter of faith, that (with apologies to Star Trek) truly is the last frontier. Faith is the most intriguing and ephemeral aspect of our existence because faith consists of beliefs that we hold, not facts that we can prove.”
― Stephen Simon, What Dreams Have Come: Loving Through The Veil