So now what?” I ask.She is quiet for a long time, long enough that I assume she’s gone to sleep.“I think this is just part of it, ” she says. “Civilisations fall. People keep going.

Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding.

And now the story begins for the last time.

The end of the world came and my job did not change.

You’re not really grown until you’ve lost your heroes.

But instead of the end, I’m pretty sure I found myself at the start of something.

I never thought I'd get a chance to do what I'm doing. It's such a dream.

I'm quite old-fashioned. I like going out to dinner. You have the chance to talk to somebody and get to know them better.

You could never be an adolescent if you don't look like one.

It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.

He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders.

I have had a holiday, and I'd like to take it up professionally.

My uniqueness reveals something of Christ that no one else does.

Let us be sad; it is feeling that makes us human.

The dictionary also invites a playful reading. It challenges anyone to sit down with it in an idle moment. There are worse ways to kill time.

I mean, personally, I would have had no problem surviving. Come on, how hard is it to swim?