“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.”

“There was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecstasyanyone who' suffered bad pain and then recovered will know what I'm talking about.”

“We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.”

“Then, for no reason I could tell you, I tossed the spool again, even though Elaine had asked me not to. Maybe only because, in a way, him chasing a spool was like old people having their slow and c...”

“About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little;it was her, you see, and she never taxed me with the times that I slipped from the way ...”

“Time takes it all, whether you want it or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them th...”

“A chair can be more valuable in memories than, say, a precious gem. A gem could have no stories to share; no lives altered or changed in the slightest. It could remain buried beneath the earth for ...”

“There is something much better than sitting on an empty chair and that is to watch it and to let it to inspire you to think deeply!”

“She's right, Kate's right, I'm right and you're wrong. If you drive her away from here it will be over my dead chair, has it never occurred to you at on one occasion you might be consummately wrong?”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of wi...”

“My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains....”

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”

“Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.”

“The wide corridor up the centre of E Block was floored with linoleum the colour of tired old limes, and so what was the Last Mile at other prisons was called the Green Mile at Cold Mountain.”

“The wide corridor up the centre of E Block was floored with linoleum the colour of tired old limes, and so what was the Last Mile at other prisons was called the Green Mile at Cold Mountain.”