Quote by Isaac Asimov

“I couldn’t tell anyone. I never, ever wanted Ben to be dead. But sometimes I wanted him gone. And then he was.”

— Ally Condie

“And all the woe that moved him so That he gave that bitter cry the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats None knew so…

— Oscar Wilde

“He saw his coming death, and wasn’t afraid of it anymore. He’d miss all the good stuff to follow, but he’d help make it…

— James S.A. Corey

“To me he seemed one of those persons destined to failure of whom you wonder what purpose it can ever serve that they should…

— Maugham Somerset William

“I know his death could have been avoided with a doctor who was really on top of it. He had so much life in…

— Neil Young

“Ben is ten and he’s dead. But he’s not gone. Not for me.”

— Victoria Schwab

“His lost look of a man who realized that all this dying was going to be the only life he ever had.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“There’s nothing like the memory of a lost friend to remind a man of his own mortality.”

— John J. Winters

“He'd thought there was no part of him that Ben hadn't laid bare, but there was his hope. There was his heart.”

— Lisa Henry

“A great weight had been lifted off of my shoulders. Ben wasn’t what I wanted or needed. I wanted someone who knew me, the…

— Paige Weaver

“None of his colleagues or friends, or former colleagues or former friends, had died. Sometimes it amazed him that he’d managed to live forty-two…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“And Oscar would tell the old man his only regret: that he was living the unremarkable life his parents had always expected from him.”

— Benjamin Wood