Who knows what part we play in other people's dreams?
You never know which people will affect your life.
Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.
The struggle is what teaches you.
Emotion doesn't travel in a straight line. Like water, our feelings trickle down through cracks and crevices, seeking out the little pockets of neediness and neglect, the hairline fractures in our character usually hidden from public view.
You kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're indifferent to.