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“And should you find my body pale and wrecked upon the loamy shale: rejoice, my love, and call me blessed! In death, my love, I loved you best.”

“But there was a difference between wrong and evil, wasn’t there?”

“German totalitarian society resembles some faulty form of life, worse than natural thing. Worse in all its admixtures, its potpourri of pointlessness.”

“Damn them, I can’t free myself of their influence, can’t give in to impulse. All spontaneity crushed…”

“A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.”

“Juliana, Frink thought. Are you as alone as I am?”

“There is evil! It’s actual, like cement. I can’t believe it. I can’t stand it. Evil is not a view.”

“We have not in our society solved the problem of the aged[…]China teaches us rightly to honor the old. However, the Germans cause our neglect to seem close to outright virtue. I understand they murder the old.”

“This was definitely a macchiato woman. Everything about her smelled of money, of entitlement, and a life lived as if through the pages of a glossy magazine.”

“Dead grasses and rotting reeds loomed up in the mists like ragged shadows of long-forgotten summers.”

“The whole place was wrong. The bed had been made, but with the quilt folded at the bottom instead of pulled up to the pillows, which she suspected was a Protestant way of folding a quilt.”

“It is doubtful if he ever did anything braver in cold blood, or more unwise.”

“Until seven times the years in which he tormented us have passed, we shall not tire of watching him.”

“She was a car crash of a woman, someone people said had no luck.”

“I open a book and get a report on future events even God would like to file and forget. And who am I? The wrong person; I can tell you that.”

“They want to be the agents, not the victims, of history. They identify with God’s power and believe they are godlike. That is their basic madness.”

“Not now, cancer, there’s a wedding! Then an anniversary, a birthday. Come back when we’re not so busy.”

“I came to realize that while I struggled to be good, I could excel at being courageous.”

“Understand one another? I fear I am beyond your comprehension. But you, Saruman, I understand now too well.”