“Is it not strange that the more someone has, the less he feels he has? Envy can never be sated.”
“Hal finds he rather envies a man who feels he has something to explain his being fucked up, parents to blame it on.”
“Wealth... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more. ”
“And Nurd, who had never had a mother and father, and who had never loved or been loved, marvelled at the ways in which feeling so wonderful could also leave one open to so much pain. In a strange way, he envied Samuel even that. He wanted to care about someone so much that it could hurt.”
“He has found himself more and more reliant on her at exactly the point that she has become less available to him.”
“Reluctantly he realized some forces could not be conquered and some vengeances can never be sated.”