Pickardino

...but all of life is a symphony of successive losses. You loose your youth, your parents, your loves, your friends, your comforts, your health, and finally your life. To deny loss is to lose it all anyway and to lose, in addition, your self-possesion and your peace of mind.

Issac Asimov - Nemesis

Welcome to the paranoia club; cheapest fees in the universe and memebrship lasts forever.

Peter F. Hamilton - The Evolutionary Void

Apparently I am what is known as Unreliable Narrator, though of course if you believe everything you're told you deserve whatever you get.

Iain M. Banks - Transition