“I thought the best thing to do would be nothing, and in that way things couldn’t get any worse.”
“If something came out of the deal, it couldn’t make things any worse for us than they already were, I thought. But I couldn’t have been more wrong. Hell has no true bottom.”
“Things do not always happen the way I would have wanted, and it's best that I get used to that.”
“If I'd had any way of knowing that things were- as Lily Tomlin once said- going to get a whole lot worse before they got worse, I'm not sure how I would have slept that night.”
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
“This was an idea peculiar to Camille, Maximilien thought, that the worse things get, the better they get. No one else seems to think this way.”