“The spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers the world.”

“He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world;”

“The world changes. Now, one needs no army and no sword to conquer the world.”

“and he felt that, just as he had conquered this place, he could conquer the world.”

“He would not deceive himself so much. He would not – and this was the test – pretend to care about women when the only sex that attracted him was his own. He loved men and always had loved them. He longed to embrace them and mingle his being with theirs. Now that the man who returned his love had been lost, he admitted this.”

“Jareed tended to rush in and out of the dining room; he had Willing worlds to conquer every day. But he made sure to stop in the doorway on his way out and give Sadie a huge, flourishing farewell bow.It stopped traffic.”