“The aristocrats had to force them to do their jobs. After all, human beings are not badgers. We aren't molded to stoop.”

“She smiled. "I know, this is a place where one employs nothing but aristocrats for the lousiest kinds of jobs.""They're all aristocrats, that's true," said Wyatt, "because they know that there's no such thing as a lousy job--only lousy men who don't care to do it.”

“People don't change because you want them to. They aren't clay, ready to be molded.”

“The summer had been mad. It had been like a badger caught in a tarred barrel, fed on chilli an forced to listen to chanting monks.”

“Living as I do with human beings, the more that I observe them, the more I am forced to conclude that they are selfish.”

“There are things in this world that no human being should be able to endure. We should die of heartbreak, but we do not. Instead, we are forced to survive, to bear witness.”