“It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.”

“A man's conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”

“The only judgment that truly matters is the final judgment.”

“In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.”

“Dangerous, she thought, this was so dangerous. Too many pieces of her in his hands. She had to hold something back, some part of her that would protect her against the nights she woke to find him lying awake, a faraway expression on his face. Because it would happen—no matter the passionate tenderness growing ever deeper between them, she was second best, would always be second best.”

“I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.”