Trouble comes looking for you if you’re a fool. - Gregory Benford

You know, my dear, you're wrong that suffering ennobles people." She'd stopped to massage her hip, wincing. "It simply makes one cross.

In its studies and learned colloquy, Faz saw and felt the tales of Men. They seemed curiously convoluted, revolving about Self. What mattered most to those who loved tales was how they concluded. Yet all Men knew how each ended. Their little dreams were rounded with a sleep.
So the point of a tale was not how it ended, but what it meant. The great inspiring epic rage of Man was to find that lesson, buried in a grave.

Talkers never acted when they could talk.