When you buy cheap, you get cheap.
When an old man dies, a library burns.
What you did for yourself was what gave you the power.
This inhuman place makes human monsters.[repeated often in the rest of the book]
There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves.
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
There ain’t no power in heaven or on earth that can stop people from thinkin the worst when they want to.
The universe is large, he thought. It contains multitudes. It also contains me, and in this moment I am wonderful. I have a right to be wonderful.
The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.
The surgery was a success, but the patient died.
The sleep of reason breeds monsters.[Goya]
Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren’t choices at all.