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21 " It’s what you do to the living that takes the strong emotions, courage, hatred and love. "
― P.D. James , Devices and Desires (Adam Dalgliesh #8)
22 " The dead are beyond harm, the harm they do and the harm that is done to them. "
23 " At the heart of the universe there is cruelty. We are predators and are preyed upon, every living thing. "
24 " Sometimes the very old seem to have moved beyond that kind of fear. The trivial upsets of daily living assume importance but the big tragedies they take in their stride. "
25 " Or would it resist even time and the North Sea and still be standing when the final darkness fell over the planet? In his more pessimistic moments some rogue part of his mind knew this darkness to be inevitable, although he did not expect it to come in his time, maybe not even in his son’s. "