Colin Singleton’s distance from his glasses made him realize the problem: myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.
the point is that there are always answers.
The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters.
As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar.
I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.
He liked the idea of coffee quite a lot—a warm drink that gave you energy and had been for centuries associated with sophisticates and intellectuals. But coffee itself tasted to him like caffeinated stomach bile.