Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.