Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.

It's the endlessly thinking about yourself that causes such heart shame.

Forget us, forget us all, it makes no difference now, but don't forget we loved it when we were alive.

Such silly things, children -- and so embarrassing -- because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.

at least i'm talkng to myself. instead of giving myself the cold shoulder

The real thing about evil," said the Witch at the doorway, "isn't any of what you said. You figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. It's like the old saw: What does a dragon in its shell look like? Well no one can ever tell, for as soon as you break the shell to see, the dragon is no longer in its shell. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret.