But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same? - Anthony Doerr

German sailors sing a drunken song in the street, and a house spider over the stove spins a new web every night, and to Marie-Laure this is a double cruelty: that everything else keeps living, that the spinning earth does not pause for even an instant in its trip around the sun.

WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE IS BETTER THAN WHAT YOU SO DESPERATELY SEEK

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.