Confronting your own assassin is a tricky business; you don't want to trigger your own murder just for the sake of getting something off your chest. - Steve Toltz

I think all people on their deathbeds should not forgive themselves for not committing suicide, even one day earlier. To let yourself be murdered by Nature's hand is the only real apathy there is.

She was secretive, like me - not wanting anyone to know her every thought in case he used it against her. I imagined she'd discovered, as I had, that what people want from you is confirmation that you're toeing the line, living by the same rules they are, and that you're not going off on your own or awarding yourself any special privileges.

To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.