How obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degradations of time, and time is just a synonym for death.

A part of me knew... from the moment I saw her;her death would have been one wound too many that day.

We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us, everything, last of all life itself. Yet everywhere I look, I find great beauty in this battlefield, and grace and the promise of joy.

That I had come full circle shouldn't have surprised me, for we are born into time only to be born out of it, after living through the cycles of the seasons, under stars that turn because the world turns, born into ignorance and acquiring knowledge that ultimately reveals to us our enduring ignorance: The circle is the essential pattern of our existence.

All death matters.""Only to the living.

Evil never dies. It just changes faces.

More likely, they would just cease to exist.""That's death.""No, it's different. Death leaves a corps.

I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning. As does death.

Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and sore.