Go away from this bad air, this bad dead place and do not look back, do not come back, do not even think back. Go.”
-- Old Carl (Men Who Have Lost Their Shadows )

Importance: These are Old Carl's final words to Leif and Little Carl. He is hoping to save them from the deadly cholera that has killed all the other men in the camp. Little Carl and Leif are both already sick, though they are not yet showing the symptoms.

There would come to be times when he thought of Little Carl, dead, and all the others in the camp, dead, but not him, not fully gone as he knew them to be gone and he felt dipped in shame because he lived while the others died.”
-- Narrator (Mother Waters and Brother Whales )

Importance: In a couple of scenes, Leif expresses what amounts to survivor's remorse. He also thinks about the fact that he miraculously survives dangerous encounters in the wilderness sometimes, which he puts...