...the Need was very strong now, very careful cold coiled creeping crackly cocked and ready, very strong, very much ready now—and still it waited and watched and it made me wait and watch.

“Because I am an inhuman monster, I tend to be logical,...”

“And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excel…”

“And once again I found myself wondering, as I drifted off to stunned and unbeli…”

“Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would…”