Le miré con frialdad, esa frialdad que proviene de haber descubierto un secreto que nos puede beneficiar inmensamente.

Entonces repetí palabras que antes habían tenido un sentido pálido en mi experiencia.
"Sufrirás", me decía, "sufrirás... sufrirás...sufrirás..."
"Sufrirás... sufrirás..."
"Sufrirás...", y la palabra se me caía de los labios.
Así maduré todo el invierno infernal.

People can be divided into four groups: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, those who wonder what happened, and those who brag that they're the ones that made it happen.

Funny how addiction was socially acceptable—even a status symbol—when it made people extroverts rather than introverts

It's human nature to want to be with other people.

What manner of people they were only books and other people could tell... and the tale was a long and gory one dating from the dim, conjectural dawn of history. But being human they were as apt to change as mother nature to remain constant.