"He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living."

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The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think we know can suddenly become someone else when previously hidden strands of his character are called to the fore by circumstance.

— Elliot Perlman