“[Death] is a safety-device because, once Man has fallen, natural immortality would be the one utterly hopeless destiny for him.”— C.S. Lewis Related Quotes “I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It’s as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don’t want that ache to stop.”— Shannon Hale “He comes down next to me, and when I hold out my hand, he takes it. Our fingers lace together. And in that feeling, that perfect feeling of our hands and fingers pressed together, I want to tell him everything. I want to tell him about Josh, and his sister, Emily. I want to tell him about tall, crazy Gert. I want to tell him about bridges and funerals, and most of all, maps. More than anything else, I want to tell him about myself. I want to tell him that I know what things look like from above now. There’s so much I want to tell him, because I know he’ll understand.”— Shawn Klomparens “I am them. And they are me. All of us, we are each other. There is no such thing as good-bye.”— Claire Bidwell Smith