“The dress means no harm, after all. And it is new. It carries nothing inside it but the possible beginnings of her downfall.”
“A girl in a yellow dress on a sunny day with nothing inside her but darkness”
“After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.”
“Darashikoh was inside, for all the world a tastefully dressed patron of the shop, but he carried death in his undershorts and hunger in his heart.”
“A new baby is like the beginning of all things wonder hope a dream of possibilities.”
“The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.”