You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

Time itself made all things rare.

Notoriety is cheap. It's just easier to get noticed by doing something bad.

You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself.

A boy is a dangerous animal.

But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.

We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.