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“He died that day because his body served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.”

“To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life, as Eve felt the joy of life.”

“Sometimes things change, and we have to change, too.”

“I understood why she wanted Denny to go: as he fell asleep that night, she wanted him to dream of her as she used to be, not as she currently was; she didn’t want Denny’s vision of her to be corrupted by her presence.”

“So much of language is unspoken. So much of language is comprised of looks and gestures and sounds that are not words. People are ignorant of the vast complexity of their own communication.”

“People, if you pay attention to them, change the direction of one another’s conversations constantly.”

“It’s not the quality of the man,” Denny tried to explain. “It’s the quality of the team.”

“That which you manifest is before you.”

“It is being a part of a moment and being aware of nothing else, but that moment. Reflection must come at a later time.”