One mellows almost without realizing it's a compensation of age, because anger is exhausting. - Robert Galbraith

Humans often assumed symmetry and equality where none existed.

We need readers,” muttered Daniel Chard. “More readers. Fewer writers.

"It's an illness," she said, although she made the words sound like "it's uh nillness."
Nillness, thought Strike, for a second distracted. Sometimes illness turned slowly to nillness, as was happening to Bristow's mother... sometimes nillness rose to meet you out of nowhere, like a concrete road slamming your skull apart.