Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
Anything that consoles is fake.
Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own.
evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
Every persisting marriage is based on fear', said Peregrine. 'Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what's at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower.