
Mostly Dead Things

Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die.
Alan Lightman • Einstein's Dreams (Vintage Contemporaries)

The terror and consternation of the Presidential couple may be imagined by anyone who has ever loved a child, and suffered that dread intimation common to all parents, that Fate may not hold that life in as high a regard, and may dispose of it at will.
George Saunders • Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel
