To be cut off from the land of the living, and yet not to be dead. How could I bear that? That's how most men live, and don't even know it. (Orson Scott Card)

To be cut off from the land of the living, and yet not to be dead. How could I bear that? That's how most men live, and don't even know it.

Orson Scott Card

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