“They looked ruined and decrepit, the sort of men who'd soon turn into empty chairs.”
“We are arguing like a man who should say, if there were an invisible cat in that empty chair, the chair would look empty; but the chair does look empty; therefore there is an invisible cat in it.”
“Jace, on the other hand, looked like the sort of boy who'd come over to your house and burn it down for kicks.”
“Why you decrepit old mage! You couldn't turn water into ice in the dead of winter!”
“Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.”
“There is always something melancholic about the empty chairs.”