Christopher

“He was a rich man—richer, I think, than Mr. Macafee—and like most rich men he had nothing distinctive about him, the money having assumed for him the task of self-expression that, in poorer men, is assumed by the personality;”
― Gene Wolfe, Peace

“our lives couldn’t be viewed with detachment until they were half forgotten, like paintings which can be seen objectively only when the artists are long dead,”
― Gene Wolfe, Peace

“(Have you never thought as you read that months may lie between any pair of words?)”
― Gene Wolfe, Peace

“Lois had gone out of my life (I should say that she had left my future—I could never eradicate her from my past, no matter how hard I tried)”
― Gene Wolfe, Peace