People die in the Winter; it’s what it’s there for. - Jasper Fforde

"Oh!" said Landen, reading a letter. "A rejection from my publisher. They didn't think Fatal Parachuting Mistakes and How to Avoid Making Them Again was what they had in mind for self-help."
"I guess their target audience doesn't include dead people."
"You could be right."

It wasn’t going to be hard—it was going to be impossible. It wouldn’t deter me. I’d done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn’t scare me as much as it used to.

I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.