See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that
someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living
is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day
you look down and see how much pain has eroded.

I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

Done to death by slanderous tongues

Death without dread of death is welcome death

A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded.