“I wouldn’t wish my life on anyone!” screamed Edward. “It was a life of heartache, disappointment, wishing what could have been, never knowing the love of another human being.”
― Steven Decker, One More Life to Live

“The car was waiting for him, and in twenty minutes, he passed under the Broken Heart sign that used to read Tender Oak. Edward found it ironic that it was March. The harvest would begin soon. He’d first arrived at this place seventy-five years ago at the age of ten, in March, just before the harvest.”
― Steven Decker, One More Life to Live

“The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia.”
― Paul Evdokimov, Orthodoxy

“You embrace death because life doesn’t exist without it.”
― Dominic Riccitello