“Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way.”
“...the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn’t cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy.”
“Yet how often is it that we are rescued by a stranger, if ever at all? And how is it that our lives can become drained of the possibility of forgiveness and kindness - so drained that even one small act of mercy becomes a potent lifelong memory? How do our lives reach these points?”
“Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.”
“Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.”
“Sometimes one feels that it would be merciful to tear down these houses, for they must often dream.”