If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?

Civilization is vastly overrated.

But you can't marry someone to fix him, even if you love them.

The only certainty life contains is death.

Maybe I should go back to teaching school about crazy people instead of being one. (Jim Alvin)

Asil left Bran alone with his thoughts then, because if he stayed, Bran would argue with him. This way, Bran would have no one to argue with but himself. And Asil had always credited Bran with the ability to be persuasive.

Mmm, he rumbled into my ear. I thought that being married meant that I never go to bed hungry.