Status Updates From An Officer and a Spy

“And yet, in the end, we win- not in a flash of glory, as we had always hoped; not at the climax of some great trial, with the condemned man, vindicated at last, carried shoulder-high to freedom. We win quietly, behind closed doors, when tempers have cooled, in committee rooms and archives, as all the facts are sieved and sieved again, by careful jurists. -page 600

“For the first time in my life I carry hatred inside me. It is an almost physical thing, like a concealed knife. Sometimes, when I’m alone, I like to take it out and run my thumb along its cold, sharp blade.” -pages 449,450