I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am. - William Somerset Maugham

If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.

Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till a word or a sentence gives you a clue; and on a sudden suspicion, as it were, of the sense flashes across your troubled wits, vaguely she gained an inkling into the workings of Walter's mind. It was like a dark and ominous landscape seen by a flash of lightning and in a moment hidden again by the night. She shuddered at what she saw.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.