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Sometimes the most unpredictable people were the most predictable.

Can a need for sanity reach insane proportions?

Happiness, he thought, is beyond reach for some. Fate didn't stand in their way. Rather, they themselves were their own worst enemies.

Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms.

Modesty, false or otherwise, was not something he was accustomed to, but manipulation is contingent on knowing when to brag and when to be humble.

They were good. They were very good.
But they weren't great.
Wichtig was great. 😄

Wichtig reminds me so much of The Emerald Wind from Never Die.

To be devoured by your one love was to achieve a harmony few would ever realize.

Power corrupts and a corrupted mind becomes more powerful.

Someone open to atrocity is far more dangerous than someone afraid of it.

A sane man is simply a man afraid to unleash his inner demons.

Author's Note: Apologies to those who can actually speak German. 😂

Little things always seem funnier because one is not allowed to laugh, just as they do in church (or in a commentary box.) 😜

People, I have learned over the years, enjoy listening to their cricket in some of the oddest circumstances.

Do watch those corks. We've already had one listener suggesting that the team spend all their time drinking, as it is. 😂

The game of cricket has thrown up a great deal of literature, verse, and even music; perhaps most important, it has thrown up conversation.

Sometimes it's as important to prove there is no answer to a question as it is to answer it.

With a magic trick, as soon as the show is over, the opportunity for the audience to perceive the secret is gone. However, with a criminal trick, investigators can pore over every detail of the crime scene until they're satisfied.

Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.

Nothing was too good for the gods. Except, of course, the freedom.

"You learn things as a mercenary. You fight enough people, and you figure you start to understand them. You stay alive by anticipating them. The thing is, people aren't simple."

"Don't make important people angry," Tonk Fah said, yawning. "Unless you're getting paid by people even more powerful."

But something made her uneasy; maybe the queasy predawn light, so elusive in its illumination. She wasn't sure whether she should get out of the car or not. Theodore would have told her to drive straight on, of course, but then Theodore had left her, hadn't he?

Vice for sale on every corner, if you knew where to look.

Ricky tasted something he hadn't experienced since childhood: the panic of losing the hand of a guardian. In this case the lost parent was his sanity.

Winter, Lewis decided, was no season for old men. The snow that lay five inches thick on the streets of Paris froze him to the marrow. What had been a joy to him as a child was now a curse.

Without politics we're lost in a wilderness, aren't we?

Philosophy was a way to talk about fear.

Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell. 😂

He was a very susceptible man, and he often fell in love with the dolls he mended, and found it hard to part with them when they had smiled at him for a few days.

Ul-wundulas was a land of pain. It had hurt Fetching every day that she could remember. But it could kill her only once.
And it hadn't yet.