"Murder is unique in that it abolishes that party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim, and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness." - W.H. Auden
"To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go." - Mary Oliver