Because the enormous narcissism of their parents deprived Will and Tom of suitable role models, both brothers learned to identify with absence. Consequently, even if something beneficial fortuitously entered their lives they immediately treated it as temporary. By the time they were teenagers they were already accustomed to a discontinuous lifestyle marked by constant threats of abandonment and the lack of any emotional stability. Unfortunately, "accustomed to" here is really synonymous with "damaged by.

Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground.

Not all complex problems have easy solutions; so says science (so warns science.)

Beautiful women are always drawn to men they think will keep them beautiful.

We all create stories to protect ourselves.

Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.

Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one holding it. Thus one craves what by seeing one has in fact not seen.