Christopher

“(Have you never thought as you read that months may lie between any pair of words?)”
― Gene Wolfe, Peace

“But the Lorns stood in the worst possible relationship: they were known by name only. They were reputed to be “nice.”
― Gene Wolfe, Peace

“our lives couldn’t be viewed with detachment until they were half forgotten, like paintings which can be seen objectively only when the artists are long dead,”
― Gene Wolfe, Peace

“He was a rich man—richer, I think, than Mr. Macafee—and like most rich men he had nothing distinctive about him, the money having assumed for him the task of self-expression that, in poorer men, is assumed by the personality;”
― Gene Wolfe, Peace