“Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.”
“Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends”
“Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.”
“They were unlikely neighbors, and unlikely neighbors were the most likely to give each other trouble.”
“How could one sentence uttered in anger cause so much damage? But then words were the most powerful thing in the universe. Cuts and bruises always healed, but words spoken in anger were most often permanent. They didn’t damage the body, they destroyed the spirit. (Acheron)”
“Potentially evil. Potentially good, too, I suppose. Just this huge powerful potentiality waiting to be shaped.”