No true hero ever believes that they are one.

does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are?

I smell fear, he said with a quiet intensity. But not nearly enough.

I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning.

It was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For he no longer remembered how to be alone without being lonely.

Sharks have a deadly form of claustrophobia. It's not so much fear of enclosed spaces as it is inability to exist in them. No one knows why. Some say it's the metal in aquariums that throws their equilibrium off. But whatever it is, big sharks don't last long in captivity

...the first sign of civilization is always trash.