“It seemed that the years had softened her, or perhaps they'd hardened me”

“I believe [the Bible] is meant to soften our hearts, not harden them.”

“his discomfort seemed to soften her, for when he met her eyes again, they were kind.”

“I was willing to die fighting, but it was senseless for all these men to go down with me. Perhaps my blood was tainted, despite my power over the Pattern. A true prince of Amber should have had no such qualms. I decided then that my centuries on the Shadow Earth had changed me, softened me perhaps, had done something to me which made me unlike my brothers.”

“Whenever the conviction of God’s Spirit comes there is the softening of the whole nature to obey; but if the obedience is not instant there will come a metallic hardening and a corrupting of the guidance of God.”

“But perhaps a heart takes experience and time to harden.”