“There are certain crimes that are simply too cruel, too sadistic, too hideous to be forgiven.”
“But in the mountains, I was forgiven. And my dad was forgiven, too.”
“Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel. ”
“One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.”
“War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.”
“As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.”