“Of all the apocalypses in all the world - she had walked into his.”
“ 'We've all had judgement lapses that had us tiptoeing toward our own personal apocalypse.' ”
“The tent in which she first met him had smelled of blood, of the death she did not understand, and still she had thought of it all as a game. She had promised him the world. His flesh in the flesh of his enemies. And much too late had she realized what he had sown in her. Love. Worst of all poisons.”
“I walked a mile with Pleasure;She chatted all the way;But left me none the wiserFor all she had to say.I walked a mile with Sorrow;And ne’er a word said she;But, oh! The things I learned from her,When Sorrow walked with me.”
“He had been walking these roads, he thought, all his life.”
“People are all the fun in life" - Candido's Apocalypse”