Christopher didn’t understand that there was a fine line between seeking death and being indifferent to its occurrence.

He wanted to tell her that he’d learned a man could come to love again without betraying his first love.

Theirs was a bond that transcended class, nationality, and other such trivialities.

The world was full of ugliness, Sebastian knew that; ugliness, and ugly people. But you couldn’t let them win, those men who took what they wanted with never a thought or care for the ones who suffered and died as a result. You could never stop fighting them, never let them think that what they did was right or somehow justified. Never let them triumph unchallenged.

Murder is unseemly. Making certain a killer doesn’t get away with what he has done is an obligation we the living owe to the dead – no matter how unsavory we consider them to be.

Love. I think an angel would fear falling in love with a mortal – someone who could be theirs for only a short time and then would slip away forever.” He.

I’ve never attended a Quaker service before.” “We believe that true religion is a personal encounter with God rather than a matter of ritual and ceremony, and that all aspects of life are sacramental. Therefore, no one day or place or activity is any more spiritual than any other. But we gather together at such times to discover in stillness a deeper sense of God’s presence.

Religion is important to the order of society. It reconciles the lower classes to their lot in life and teaches them to respect their betters.

When one lived a life that was, essentially, a lie, appearances were everything.

Sometimes he wondered if most people experienced the world around them a little bit differently from their fellows, if the assumption of commonality was simply an illusion.