Status Updates From Martyr!

"Underneath being-startled is the expectation of calm," Zee said, then paused. "I mean, a person gasps because the ease they were expecting was interrupted. I think probably your life hasn't taught you to expect ease.“

"All those severe poets talking big about the wages of sin all the time," Zee added, "but nobody ever brought up the wages of virtue.
The toll of trying really really hard to be good in a game that's totally rigged against goodness."

How when he saw a bird or a tree or a bug, Zee really saw that bird or tree or bug, not the idea of it.

I demand the same leniencies, rationalizations, granted to
mediocre men for centuries.

I am flatterable, and obnoxiously disarmed by praise.

When I say "nations," I mean "armed marketplaces."
Always. That understanding made the world a little bit easier to comprehend, if not tolerate.