I could never forget you, Meggie, not as long as I live. And for my punishment I’m going to live a long, long time.
Jean-Louis Duroc: — Do you know Giacometti, the sculptor?
Anne Gauthier: — Oh, yes. He was handsome.
Jean-Louis Duroc: — Well, he said something extraordinary: "If caught in a fire and I had to choose between a Rembrandt and a cat... I'd save the cat."
Anne Gauthier: — "And then I'd let the cat go."
Jean-Louis Duroc: — Did he say that too?
Anne Gauthier: — That's what's so wonderful.
Jean-Louis Duroc: — Yes, it is. Between art and life, he said he'd choose life.
What about us? We don't have any beeps or wires with little white dots telling us we're alive, so how do we know? I guess we just take each other's word.
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
The door is locked now,
But it's opened if you're true.
If you can understand the me,
Then i can understand the you.
Let me confess that we two must be twain,
Although our undivided loves are one:
So shall those blots that do with me remain,
Without thy help, by me be borne alone.
In our two loves there is but one respect,
Though in our lives a separable spite,
Which though it alter not love's sole effect,
Yet doth it steal sweet hours from love's delight.
I may not evermore acknowledge thee,
Lest my bewaild guilt should do thee shame,
Nor thou with public kindness honour me,
Unless thou take that honour from thy name:
But do not so; I love thee in such sort,
As thou being mine, mine is thy good report.
The majority of people who attempt suicide repeat their attempts until they succeed. I took a risk in lying to her about her condition. I decided to test the only remedy I've come to have any faith in. Awareness of life. Until she finds out from some other doctor that she's perfectly healthy, she'll consider each day a miracle. Which in my view it is.
