“ When the old men kill themselves, the cities are dying. ”
Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.
~ Robert Ludlum
The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.
Before taking her into the library, my wife told me she was an old friend in a marriage crisis. A fatuous lie; at her age there are no crises left in marriage, only acceptance and extraction. (General Villiers)
The mind plays tricks. It rejects things until it thinks ― or something tells it ― that the remembering can be handled.
