He was terrified of losing everything he had, so he’d convinced himself he had nothing to lose.
(about Sandy's father, p 98)
Maybe that's one of the mistakes I did myself after discovering I was probably exiled forever: having had lost so much throughout my life I convinced myself I'd lost everything, and consequently also lost all interest in the future, carrying on merely out of inertia and remnants of defiance.
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