If certain places you came to in life felt right, then how many others were just as clearly the wrong place to be?

If I’ve learned one thing, it’s that the unfortunate thing about life is that everything’s mixed. There’s no absolute good and there’s no absolute evil. There’s just a lot of confusion.

Waiting, he thought, was the most miserable condition a man could find himself in. His whole life, he had been waiting for one thing or another.

Still, for all that, her life had lacked passion. The demons had never come for her.