Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.
You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.
But so far, the invisible line was holding, separating the potential from its realization. Strange, that invisible lines could be so powerful, thought Maneck – strong as brick walls.
You cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.
The return of solitude was not quite as Dina expected it to be. These many years I made a virtue of inescapable reality, she thought, calling it peace and quiet.
Hell has ways of permeating heaven’s membrane.