Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
Mysterious affair, electricity.
Dying for dark — and the darker the Worse. Strange.
People are bloody ignorant apes.
Watt had watched people smile and thought he understood how it was done.