I think your vision gets better as you get older.

I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people.

The world goes on, as stupid and brutal as tomorrow as it was today. And though I am shuddering with pain, and twisting with pain, and sobbing with pain, i laugh.Because I know now. I know the answer. I know the truth. Oh,dead man, you are dead wrong, I tell him.Can't you see? The world goes on, stupid and brutal, but I [do not. I do not.]

Turn away. From the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and look at the light.

Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him.

The feeling that you get.... when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don't want it to, but you can't stop it. And you know, for the first time, that there will now be a before and an after, a was and a will be. And that you will never again quite be the same person you were.

I was only glad to be saved and never once thought to ask why.