You look older.” “Yes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person.

It's like he knows, he knows I have a thing for her.

Yes," she says, her eyes bright with tears. "My dear child, you've done so well.

Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us.

I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.

Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that "something" is a fake bathroom break.

I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.