It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.

Firequencher raised his hand. "I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

I looked for perfection, and I found something better.

If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.

Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.

In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.' What is it then?' It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.