“No one mocked him in his bedchamber, but he would not live his life in bed.”
“He Kept recalling her lying on his bed; she reminded him of no one in his former life.”
“Even the things that showed him his path seemed to point at what a fool he was. Another of life's ironies? Or just fate's way of mocking him?”
“And Oscar would tell the old man his only regret: that he was living the unremarkable life his parents had always expected from him.”
“Confused and fearful as he was, this one thing Tom knew for certain. No man ever took another man's balls in his mouth to mock him.”
“And now - Plato's words mock me in the shadows on the ledge behind the flames: '...the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes.”