Quotes from Rachel Ward, Numbers

And then, a strangely comforting thought trickled through me—I had nothing, so I could do anything now. Anything I wanted. I had nothing left to lose.

Life's not that simple. Not so easy to move on when the anger you've got is what keeps you going.

And just when I though things were starting to get better, everything had gone wrong again.

We all know we're one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it's not happening.

However cozy things seemed, the facts of life were the same. You couldn't escape death: It would get us all in the end.

You get use to someone—start to like them, even—and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves.

He loved me and I loved him, but the number in my head was telling me that he was going to die today. And the numbers had never been wrong.

I don't understand, Jem. I don't understand why you'd leave me. Why would you that?

I was tired of being me.

How easy to be a bird or an animal, living from day to day, unaware you're alive, unaware that one day you will die.