I'm convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.

Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting satisfaction in life. This is not an easy time in which to live. That does not mean that it has to be a difficult time to love, but it does mean that you will find unusual stresses upon your lives and your relationship.

And Vin liked solitude. When you're alone, no one can betray you

Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality - which answers only to my heart - is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution.

You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic.

I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I'm glad it exists; I just don't ever want to get stuck in it.

People see in stories what they’re looking for, my young friend.