“Jason decided not to add that the best way to get him to focus on something was to tell him not to think about it.”
“The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible.”
“The best way of getting into something is to think of it as mischief.”
“What will you tell him?""The truth."Fortismer thinks about that."Yes," he says at last. "Probably the best thing. Bloody deceptive, honesty.”
“I'd decided to write him and tell him to leave me alone. Please, in a nice way, go away, I really can't deal with you.”
“Tell him he's wrong. Tell him that even if he's right about waiting, he's right for the wrong reasons, and that makes him all the way wrong.”