“They do horrible, unchildish things because they they have had very horrible, unchildish lives.”
“Why is it acceptable to do such horrible things in the name of staying alive? Would it not have been better had I died with my innocence intact?”
“I had to assume the worst about people because I knew firsthand what horrible things they were capable of.”
“What horrible things would you have to do in your life to get woven into Hades' underwear?”
“And then I started laughing. Horrible, really. But I was laughing. Because of all the things they could say about me, equal parts horrible and true, this was so far from the mark it was funny.”
“How very much horrible would it be, if achieving everything was so easy! We bear life because there is struggle!”