“I didn't think I should die but I did not know how I would Live.”

“I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.”

“I did not speak until I was 16. I understood everything everyone said and I would want to talk, but I just didn't know how to say it.”

“I know God couldn't live a moment without me; if I should disappear, He would die, destitute”

“I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know how I’m going to live.”

“These are the ghosts I live with and I hate myself for all I became and did. I am not just sorry, I am haunted. I think of all the people I hurt, of all the moments I stole from your lives, and I know I deserve to die.”

“if I fall if I die know I lived it to the fullest, if I fall if I die know I lived and missed some bullets”

“I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.”

“I steeled myself against laughter; I would rather die than laugh. I didn’t laugh, I did not laugh. But I died, I did die.”

“I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that I when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that I might have been and couldn't be. All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I lived, the breath I breathed.”