Possum

“Together, my parents had learned to be much more than "the sum of their parts", whatever that means.

Separately, they were kind of just a mess.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 5

“Your personality is not just a matter of what you know about yourself, but what others know about you. You are one person with your mother, and another with your lover, and yet another with your child. Those other people create you--finish you--as much as you create you. When you're gone, the ones you've left behind get to keep the same part of you they always had.”
― Joe Hill, The Fireman

“There's something horribly unfair about dying in the middle of a good story, before you have a chance to see how it all comes out. Of course, I suppose everyone ALWAYS dies in the middle of a good story, in a sense. Your own story. Or the story of your grandchildren. Death is a raw deal for narrative junkies.”
― Joe Hill, The Fireman

“Work’s just like school, except this time it’s a life sentence. No parole.”
― Colette Snowden, The Secret To Not Drowning