“When people weren't allowed to go their own way, they were more likely to break than bend.”
“And workers who needed to go to the bathroom weren't allowed to take a break. They were forced to pee right on the slaughterhouse floor, near meat that people would soon be eating.”
“The Librarian liked being best man. You were allowed to kiss bridesmaids, and they weren't allowed to run away.”
“It is funnier to bend things than to break them.”
“People, she was discovering, were like cockroaches: If you allowed one in, more were sure to follow.”
“...the kind of people who can't bend without breaking”