Chapter 139: Thesis

"We are respecting our parents' wishes... They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them."

Lemony Snicket, The End

(A Series of Unfortunate Events)

"The Witch would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself will start working backwards."

C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia)

"Hate is the father of all evil."

David Gemmell, Fall of Kings (Troy, #3)

"There is always the threat of tomorrow's treachery, or next year's treachery, or the treachery implicit in all the tomorrows beyond that."

Tim O'Brien, In the Lake of the Woods

"I was ready to die for you, but never realized that it was you who will kill me."

Shon Mehta, The Timingila

"By this time I was thoroughly terrified, not so much fearing death as the treachery of my own kind."

Cicero

"I do know this much though: If a man resorts to wiles, guile, and petty deceptions, it means he's nowhere being in love."

Orhan Pamuk

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