“Taking power away from a man is a dangerous thing. Someone always pays.”
“To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.”
“You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.”
“It is a common condition of being poor... you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them.”
“Words...have always held the dangerous power to conjure things into being.”
“Words, Isobel, have always held the dangerous power to conjure things into being. Remember that.”