"When I opened my eyes, the window across from us was dark red and I coudl feel that there was not much time left. Outside, the world I had watched for so long was living and breathing on the same earth I now was. But I knew I would not go out. I had taken this time to fall in love instead-- in love with the sort of helplessness I had not felt in death -- the helplessness of being alive, the dark bright pity of being human -- feelingas you went, groping in corners and opening your arms to light-- all it part of navigating the unknown." -The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold