Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause.

Wennerström was devoting himself to fraud that was so extensive it was no longer merely criminal–it was business.

What she had realised was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.

He's pulling the load of an ox and walking on eggshells.

You're an entropic chaos factor

In the evening he went to the cinema to see "The Lord of the Rings", which he had never before had time to see. He thought that orcs, unlike human beings, were simple and uncomplicated creatures.

Consider this a fair warning.