“There's a distinctive aural quality to lies. This didn't have it.”

“The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.”

“Like her, he didn't buy the Nietzschean line that whatever didn't kill you made you stronger. Sometimes whatever didn't kill you disfigured and debilitated you for the rest of your life instead of killing you. Mere survival was neither here nor there. It was the manner of survival, what you did with whatever it was that didn't kill you.”

“There's no such thing as evil for its own sake. All evil is motivated - even mine {Lucifer}.”

“He didn't protest much. Evidently he had a penchant for surrender.”

“I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it.”

“Thus she's discovered the Conradian truth: The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it...You do what you do because it's that or death.”