Eliza

“Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”
― Mary Oliver

“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods