What’s worst: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed?

“If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if…”

“I ignore my fear,” he says. “When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn’t exist.…”

“It is amazing how pretending to be in a different faction changes everything --…”

“Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.”