I’m sorry,” she said for the first time in a decade. Another new skill mastered. - Rupert Holmes

"The same way death ought to come," added Dobson, almost wistfully. "No time for last words, apologies, retractions, rewrites. The good you did, the mess you made, that's what lives on."

Sadly, lessons taught by that cruel mentor Failure are often the most bitterly learned and vividly remembered.

[Dean Harbinger Harrow]

When a man dies from a bullet entering his chest, it's a homicide.
When a man dies from a meteorite landing on his head, it's a tragedy.
Don't use bullets. Use meteorites
Don't commit a homicide. Commit a Tragedy.
-Guy McMaster