...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.

Parents always know what strings control your heart and soul. After all, they are the ones who tied them there.

If they projected the fact that they are dangerous any harder, there would be little puddles of "danger" on the floor around them. Look, it's "danger", don't step in it!

Assume the attitude of prayer, and in time, the attitude will become prayer.

... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.

... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.

He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them