“Small talk. Catching up. Thinly veiled hostility.”
“You are in the Thin Veil, the Black Sunshine.”
“The only alternative to talking is the building up of resentment and anger, which in the time must inevitably become open hostility and conflict.”
“Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.”
“Let's clear one thing up: Introverts do not hate small talk because we dislike people. We hate small talk because we hate the barrier it creates between people.”
“Love is a big and wonderful idea, but life is made up of small things. As a kid, you have nothing to do with the way the world is run; you just have to hurry to catch up with it.”