Joyce D

“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

“She swallows. “Isn’t it lonely?” “It doesn’t have to be. After all, loneliness is just like us,” says Ezra. “It has to be invited in.”
― V.E. Schwab, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

“Rose: Cosmo, I just want you to know that no matter what you do, you’re going to die, just like everybody else.

Cosmo: Thank you, Rose!”
― John Patrick Shanley, Moonstruck, Joe Versus the Volcano, and Five Corners

“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