Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.
It's a lot easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.
You don't shoot a dog when it is already dead.
I'm asking you, I'm begging you, could you please shut your mouth for just five minutes?" You can imagine the reaction. They ended up in the basement.
You're far from this. This story is just another few hundred pages of your mind.
The injury of words. Yes, the brutality of words.