"Once again I felt light-headed, but this time it wasn't from the scent of lilacs; it was from the scent of my own death."
- Peter David
"The battered and pathetic thing that represented any claim to conscience I might have had turned away from me in disgust. Oddly, I couldn't blame it. I was disgusted myself. Disgusted at my weakness a..."
"All people are, at heart, egocentric. We exist at the center of our own little universes. We believe that we are living out our lives as best we can, and that we have our own sphere of influence which..."
"Apropos, you're going to have to learn to sooner or later that you can't just let other people decide what the world around you should and shouldn't be."
"Lack of movement is a formidable force to overcome."
"There are some for whom the good of mankind is their primary concern, and others who basically put their own considerations before everyone else. I was among the latter."
"Noblest. Bravest. What rot. There was no bravery in buying oneself out of difficulty."
"Only in this world of topsy-turvy attitudes could outright stupidity, such as I had displayed, be something that got me high marks. I had an amused glimmering of a notion at that point: If I ever turn..."
"Some time later, I sat in the wine cellar, staring at the walls while cradling a wineskin in my lap like a child, murmuring over and over as if lulling the child to sleep, 'I am shat upon. I am shat u..."
"Youth believes itself immortal. There is a cure for such an attitude, but unfortunately it is a cure from which one never recovers."