sympathey steals your ability to think. emphathy will cripple you. detachment and logic, those are your salvation at a fresh murder.

c.3, p.27 lkhamilton's a stroke of midnight

my father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. so be nic, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.

p62