Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
I'm so tired of missing things I don't have.
Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.
She said if she couldn't play, she had nothing left. What about me?
Even going to jail would be easy compared to losing you.
There’s a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself.
Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.
Listen to me. I am leaving, but I am living. I will not be gone from you entirely, Will. When you fight now, I will be still by you. When you walk in the world, I will be the light at your side, the ground steady under your feet, the force that drives the sword in your hand. We are bound, beyond the oath. The Marks did not change that. The oath did not change that. It merely gave words to something that existed already.
Your life is inescapable. Unless you decide to escape it.
In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are raised in an impoverished and abusive environment. Seldom are people with money or prestige convicted of capital offenses, even more seldom are they executed.
In a way, there's nothing wrong with playing the piano, but it's not a huge trauma if you don't.