They were very careful and kind. So careful and kind it was positively tactless and spiteful. - Tanith Lee

Self-love is neither fantasy nor vulgar joke. The totality of the “I,” the inbuilt survival and self-protective trait, is one of the most unshakable syndromes known to psycho-science.

There is, too, a sort of relief in admitting defeat. Struggling to drag a mountain from my path, acknowledging at last the mountain would remain, lying down beneath the mountain, thankful for the shade of it.

To be dead was a state which played odd tricks on dreams of vengeance.