Already Roland feels his limbs starting to go numb. He swallows hard. "I hate this. I hate you. I hate all of you." "I understand.

When you live a life without questions, you're unprepared for the questions when they come.

The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

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

History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.

So is darkness better than a heartfelt lie?

When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things.