Augustus half smiled. "Because you're beautiful, I enjoy looking at beaufitul people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence. . . . I mean, particularly given that, as you so deliciously pointed out, all of this will end in oblivion and everything.

“I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothingromantic or supernatu…”

“Ognuno all'inizio è una nave inaffondabile. Poi ci succedono alcune cose: perso…”

“People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn’t bare the idea of death being …”

“So you've been gone a couple days,' Alison said. 'Hmm, what'd you miss...A cele…”