I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.

“Be sweet and carry a sharp knife, was her motto.”

“After arriving on the ancestral soil I figured out pretty quickly why that [Ita…”

“Take your place, then. Look at what happened from every side and consider all t…”

“This came as a strange letdown, to see how the game always went to those who kn…”