“By the way, I forgive you.”

—Brandi Carlile, By the Way, I Forgive You

“No one asked this of me, but I wanted to keep watch of the dying everywhere, so I could figure out how to care for a bleeding sentence.”

—Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

“Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”

—Cormac McCarthy, The Road