Sand: Omnibus Edition

The only difference between a choke and a hug was an open pathway.

those years in a man’s twenties when he shrugs off the shelter of youth and before he has bothered to erect his own. The tent-less years. The bright and blinding years in which men wander as the planets do.

Vic claimed all men were a pack of liars but that those capable of leading – the men who could fool other men – were the worst kind.