Joyce D

“But one might hope that both animals, if allowed to naturally attain the end of their vastly different life spans, may experience a full measure of life....."Everybody in their bones knows that something is eternal," the Stage Manager tells the audience. The dead are at peace, knowing that at the end of their waiting, the eternal part of their selves, like a turtle in the spring, will emerge.”
― Sy Montgomery, Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell

“She had thought she had arrived. But life was always arriving. There was always another gate to pass through. (Until, of course, there wasn't.)”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“We call people ‘dead’ because we need a word for it, but ‘dead’ just means that time has stopped moving forward for that person? You understand? No one dies, not really.”
― Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die

“There is no explaining this simple truth about life: you will forget much of it.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake