" Tell me the secret to death,” she answered, mocking him. “You have to back into it,” he’d told her. “What does that mean?” “You stop staring ahead into the void. There’s nothing to see. You need to turn around. Watch life. Watch it like a rabbit about to come out of a hat. Keep your eye on it the whole time until—like that—the seeing is no more. That’s the trick. "

― Derek B. Miller , American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)