I am personally not a lover of audiobooks in general, and I am indeed one of those people who don't count listening to a book being read by someone else as actually having read that book. It simply is not reading.

Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors... Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and rotting meat... What then was music created for? Was it to drown out the voices of others, or the voices within ourselves? I think I know.

You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.

If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud!

It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?

It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.

I'm a big stupid history nerd.