"The trouble is,
You think you have time."

~Buddha

**autumn was still months away,but the leaf with her name engraved on it broke free and fell from the tree of life**

"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory."

~Dr.Suess

**With no mercy or kindness, a single and final touch would burn hollow souls into nothing but ashes on a barren ground, and turn minds into a damp cold cave of morbid nothingness; the odious faceless shadow had one name: death**

"Life is the art of dying."

~Atticus

**Don't they say that none of us will leave this world alive? Yet for my part I intend to leave the biggest and most beautiful footprint I can. Maybe yours will be right next to mine, that it is together we walk, together we leave a path to guide future generations**

"If love could have saved you,you would have lived forever."

~Anon

**For most cockroaches, death would mean sprays or being smashed. But the old cockroach somehow had lived its whole life and now needed a place to breathe its last peacefully. It took small steps through a lawn and climbed into the house. It stopped at a corner of a girl's bedroom, right at her reading nook made with a chair foam retrieved from a broken chair and a tent with broken zippers. The cockroach sat right beside her; deep down inside it knew she wasn't a bug crusher. The girl watched the tired cockroach grown too thin with its age, slowly close its eyes. It was not a different way to die, but maybe for cockroaches it was**

"I think the hardest part of losing someone ,isn't having to say goodbye,but rather learning how to live without them. Always trying to fill the void, the emptiness that's left inside your heart when they go."

~SD

**Like a silent yet faithful companion, he waited. And waited, till at last she could take his hand and leave the living; they were not truly, how could they? It dawned on him at the moment, although ironic for a dark being he knew, that he felt...he felt? Pain? Regret? Despair? Yes, he remembered. The hand that had been offered was warm, familiar and a giver of true happiness. But he could not yearn for that. It was forbidden. Sparing the woman a last glance, he sped off into the comforting folds of darkness, cherishing the sweet smile she had bequeathed him as she stepped into a place of light**

"Your life was a blessing,
Your memory a treasure,
You are loved beyond words
And missed beyond measure."

~Anon

**Death came to her with the slow rattling gasps that had taken her father years before. Her breathing would stop for a time only to reemerge like a drowning victim coming up for one last breath. But in a few moments she had passed on, her earthly tether separated and her soul bound for the Lord**

"

If there ever comes a day where we can't be together,keep me in your heart,I'll stay there forever."

~Winnie the Pooh

**Death - you never know how it feels, or what happens or where you go after you die. Most of the time you are too busy to think about it. The rest - you are either to scared to think or you believe that you still have a lot of time to think about that.
What if you don't? What if today is your last day? Would you still not think about it? I guess you won't. If you knew how long you had before you died, you would surely like to think about the rest of the moments you have left, you would think about how to make the best of what is left for you. So at the end of the day, nobody thinks about it**

"Even if you know what's coming,
You're never prepared for how it feels."

~Natalie Standiford

**Death is a body or shadow that lurks in the dark, he crawls under little children's beds and he is always there. He is always there, following you and the closer he gets the sooner he will take you as his own. He is the ghost that people fear and he is the tormentor of the many corpses claimed by death. You know when your time is nearing its end because you can feel the chill of his icy breath as it tickles the hairs on the back of your neck**

"Yor wings were ready but my heart was not."

~Anon

**Death, my child, is straightforward. It is not a gate to immortality but simply, a departure from life. It has no pattern in which those of from the Great Beyond control. And it will be there until the time comes for the world to end. Now child, head my words. Death is inevitable. He will turn a blind eye to right and wrong, to give the Eternal Slumber in return for the life of any man, woman, or child no matter how favorable. He does not discriminate, unlike those of the vastly different human race. He is neither fair nor unfair, unmoved by the prayers that grasp him through the nights and days like a statue frozen amongst the crowds**

"Cause you never think that the last time is the last time. You think there will be more. You think you have forever,but you don't."

~Grey's Anatomy

**She appeared as human for she once was, ethereal yet almost tangible enough to feel. She radiated love, smiled and beckoned. She was quite simply the one no-one would run from, she was the one to take them "home."**

**and like a whisper,she left us all**