Quotes About Rehearses

It might sound sentimental to say it in so many words, but we are blessed by the dead, and we know that we are, in spite of our protestations to the contrary. They leave spaces in our lives that, for some of us, are the closest things to sacred we ever know. They are there and then they are gone and, after a time, we come to see a certain elegance in that – the elegance of a magic trick, say, where the conjuror rehearses the vanishing act that we must all accomplish sooner or later.

He rehearses these fantasies as a teenager and eventually acts them out, as one after the other innocent person falls victim, without the slightest regard for their pain or the agony of the families and loved ones they have left behind.