“…hate's got to be a disease with me.”
“The worst disease in the world is hate. And the cure for hate is love. ”
“Repressively, Lymond himself answered. “I dislike being discussed as if I were a disease. Nobody ‘got’ me,” he said.”
“Books are like a disease. Once you've got it, it's incurrable and lifelong”
“The cat that Prim got hates me, I think partly because I tried to drown it.”
“So, on top of the betrayal, I got to feel ashamed. I got to hate myself, when the rage of Medea would have served me better; but I was ever a stranger to rage.”